Jumbo (disambiguation)

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

Jumbo may also refer to:

• Jumbo, Zimbabwe, a village
• Jumbo (supermarket), a Dutch supermarket chain
• Jumbo formation, an offensive formation in American football
• Jumbo, a type of auto rickshaw in Laos
• Jumbo, a muscadine 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 glider, nicknamed "Jumbo" for its large size
• Jumbo Website Manager, a content management system for managing the content of websites

Popular culture

• Jumbo (musical), a 1935 play about a circus
  • Billy Rose's Jumbo (film), the 1962 film based on the 1935 play
• Jumbo (film), a 2008 Indian animated movie
• Jumbo (British band), UK band merged with the Tremeloes
• Jumbo (band), a Mexican rock band
• "Jumbo" (song), a song by Underworld
• "Jumbo" (Bee Gees song)

Baseball players with the nickname

• Jumbo Brown, (1907–1966), right-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher
• Jumbo Elliott (baseball) (1900-1970), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Jumbo McGinnis (1854-1934), a Major League Baseball player during the 1880s
• Jumbo Schoeneck (1862–1930), a Major League Baseball first baseman

Other athletes with the nickname

• Anil "Jumbo" Kumble (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 (1951–2000), a Japanese professional wrestler

Fictional characters

• Mrs. Jumbo, a character in Dumbo
• Jumbo Carnation, a character in the Marvel Comics Universe
• General Jumbo, a UK comic-strip character
• Takashi Takeda or Jumbo, a character in Yotsuba&!

See also

• Hipermercados Jumbo, a South American hypermarket
• Jumbo jet, an aviation term to describe a large jet aircraft
• Jumbo mortgage, a mortgage with a loan amount above conventional loan limits
• Jumbo Water Tower, a water tower in Colchester, Essex, England
• Jumbo frame, an Ethernet frame larger than 1518 bytes
• Jumbo Machinder, a line of Japanese toys
• Jumbo Kingdom, a pair of floating restaurants in Hong Kong
• Jumbo Video, a video store in Canada
• Mumbo Jumbo (phrase), gibberish or a meaningless ritual
• Werkspoor Jumbo, a 1930s Dutch biplane freighter