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Jumbo
Jumbo
Jumbo was a large African Bush Elephant, born 1861 in the French Sudan – present-day Mali – imported to a Paris zoo, transferred to the London Zoo in 1865, and sold in 1882 to P. T...

was a famous 19th-century circus elephant, and "jumbo" is now an adjective for big or huge.

Jumbo may also refer to:

Jumbo, Zimbabwe
Jumbo, Zimbabwe
Jumbo is a village in the province of Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe. It is located in the Mazowe valley about 10 km north-east of Mazowe. According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 4,253. Ancient gold workings have been found in the area. The village grew around the...

, a village
Jumbo (supermarket)
Jumbo (supermarket)
Jumbo is a supermarket chain in the Netherlands. It is part of the privately owned Van Eerd Group. Van Eerd was originally a grocery wholesale company, established in 1921. In 1983, Van Eerd started the "Jumbo Supermarkten" supermarket chain...

, a Dutch supermarket chain
Jumbo formation, an offensive formation in American football
Jumbo, a type of auto rickshaw
Auto rickshaw
An auto rickshaw or three-wheeler is a usually three-wheeled cabin cycle for private use and as a vehicle for hire. It is a motorized version of the traditional pulled rickshaw or cycle rickshaw...

in Laos
Jumbo, a muscadine
Muscadine
Muscadines are a grapevine species native to the present-day southeastern United States that has been extensively cultivated since the 16th Century. It differs from Vitis spp. in its number of chromosomes and its morphology...

cultivar
M4A3E2 Assault Tank or Jumbo, a variant of the US M4 Sherman tank
A 214-ton steel canister code-named "Jumbo", constructed for but ultimately not used in the Trinity nuclear test in 1945
The Glasflügel 604
Glasflügel 604
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glider, nicknamed "Jumbo" for its large size
Jumbo Website Manager
Jumbo Website Manager
Jumbo Website Manager is an open source web application that allows the creation and management of small to medium websites.Jumbo focuses on usability by allowing end-users to edit the content of their website without having to go through control panels...

, a content management system
Content management system
A content management system is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based...

for managing the content of websites

Popular culture

Jumbo (musical)
Jumbo (musical)
Jumbo is a musical produced by Billy Rose, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and book by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.-Production:...

, a 1935 play about a circus
- Billy Rose's Jumbo (film)
  Billy Rose's Jumbo (film)
  Billy Rose's Jumbo is an American musical film produced by MGM in Panavision and Metrocolor, and starring Jimmy Durante, Doris Day, Martha Raye, and Stephen Boyd. The film was directed by Charles Walters and featured Busby Berkeley's choreography...
  
  , the 1962 film based on the 1935 play
Jumbo (film)
Jumbo (film)
Jumbo is a 2008, animated movie Bollywood directed by Kompin Kemgumnird. It was released in theaters on the 25 December 2008 and is a re-dubbed version of the 2006 Thai film Khan Kluay. The film features the voices of Akshay Kumar, Rajpal Yadav, Lara Dutta, Dimple Kapadia, Asrani, Gulshan Grover,...

, a 2008 Indian animated movie
Jumbo (British band)
Jumbo (British band)
Jumbo, formerly Angelique, was a Swansea-based pop cover band from London, managed by JV Entertainments and briefly signed to a national record deal until head-hunted by The Tremeloes. After a period of Tremeloes management, two Jumbo members, Bob Benham and Aaron Woolley joined them...

, UK band merged with the Tremeloes
Jumbo (band)
Jumbo (band)
Jumbo is the name of an Avanzada Regia Alternative rock band from Monterrey, Mexico.They were founded in May 1997 with the following lineup:*Alejandro Clemente Castillo Guerra, known simply as "Castillo";...

, a Mexican rock band
"Jumbo" (song)
Jumbo (song)
"Jumbo" is a song by Underworld that appears on the album Beaucoup Fish. The single peaked on the UK Singles Chart at #21. - CD : Junior Boy's Own; JBO5007193 Part 1/2 :# "Jumbo " – 4:07# "Jumbo " – 8:26...

, a song by Underworld
"Jumbo" (Bee Gees song)
Jumbo (Bee Gees song)
"Jumbo" is a single released in 1968 by English band Bee Gees.Following a string of Top 20 singles on both sides of the Atlantic, "Jumbo" was the first A-side to miss that mark in both the United Kingdom and the United States. It's a peppy guitar-heavy number with two tracks of guitar laid done by...

Baseball players with the nickname

Jumbo Brown
Jumbo Brown
Walter George "Jumbo" Brown was a right-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher, one of the first to play that position exclusively. During his career he went 33-31 with 29 saves and a 4.07 ERA. He is known mostly for his large size, weighing 295 pounds during his playing days...

, (1907–1966), right-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher
Jumbo Elliott (baseball)
Jumbo Elliott (baseball)
James Thomas "Jumbo" Elliott was a professional baseball player. He was a left-handed pitcher, playing in the major leagues over parts of ten seasons with the St. Louis Browns, Brooklyn Robins, Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Braves. He was the National League wins leader in 1931 with...

(1900-1970), American Major League Baseball pitcher
Jumbo McGinnis
Jumbo McGinnis
George Washington "Jumbo" McGinnis , was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1882 to 1887.McGinnis started his career with the St. Louis Brown Stockings of the American Association and was one of their top pitchers. From 1882 to 1884, he pitched over 300 innings and won over 20 games each year...

(1854-1934), a Major League Baseball player during the 1880s
Jumbo Schoeneck
Jumbo Schoeneck
Lewis N. "Jumbo" Schoeneck was a Major League Baseball first baseman. He played for the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies and the Baltimore Monumentals , both of the Union Association, and for the National League Indianapolis Hoosiers...

(1862–1930), a Major League Baseball first baseman

Other athletes with the nickname

Anil "Jumbo" Kumble
Anil Kumble
Anil Kumble is a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian Test cricket team. He is a right-arm leg spin bowler and a right-hand batsman. He is currently the leading wicket-taker for India in both Test and One Day International matches...

(born 1970), Indian Test Cricket captain
Jumbo Elliott (athletics) (1915–1981), American athletics coach
Jumbo Elliott (American football) (born 1965), former NFL football player
Jumbo Tsuruta
Jumbo Tsuruta
, better known by his ring name Jumbo Tsuruta, was a professional wrestler who wrestled for All Japan Pro Wrestling for most of his career, and is well-known for being the first ever AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion, having won the PWF Heavyweight Championship, the NWA United National...

(1951–2000), a Japanese professional wrestler

Fictional characters

Mrs. Jumbo, a character in Dumbo
Dumbo
Dumbo is a 1941 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released on October 23, 1941, by RKO Radio Pictures.The fourth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, Dumbo is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Pearl for the prototype of a...
Jumbo Carnation, a character in the Marvel Comics Universe
General Jumbo
General Jumbo
General Jumbo was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, originally drawn by Paddy Brennan....

, a UK comic-strip character
Takashi Takeda or Jumbo, a character in Yotsuba&!
Yotsuba&!
is an ongoing Japanese comedy manga series by Kiyohiko Azuma, the creator of Azumanga Daioh. It is published in Japan by ASCII Media Works, formerly MediaWorks, in the monthly magazine Dengeki Daioh and collected in ten tankōbon volumes...

See also