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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

boost′er ca`ble

either of a pair of electric cables used for starting the engine of a vehicle whose battery is dead. Also called jumper.

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booster cable - a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire; "it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads"

jumper cable, jumper lead, lead

clip lead - a short piece of wire with alligator clips on both ends

jumper - a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections

conducting wire, wire - a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance

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