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n. (context idiomatic English) A small passenger airplane, typically used for shorter connecting trips to smaller airports.
Usage examples of "puddle jumper".
Wildly he swung about, raced for the puddle jumper, wrenched the door open, hurled himself at the controls.
Entertainment, distraction, and in ten days or less, she'd be back on Delta to Denver and then a puddle jumper to Durango.
Corporal Singh began to unpack the platoon's single puddle jumper.
Recruit training companies were never permitted more than one puddle jumper, and nobody except a man trained in its operation was ever permitted to strap it on.
After that puddle jumper from Des Moines, she felt as drained and lackluster as her appearance.
The ground crew was good, but they weren't going to be taking a twin engine puddle jumper over the biggest wilderness in the lower forty eight.