jump leads BrE
jumper cables AmE , also: booster cables AmE

Alan asked him if he had any jump leads.

One such example occurred in February 2006, when dangerous car jump leads were withdrawn from sale across all stores.

Then with the jump leads, like two telephones (white - white-hot), they zapped my chest.

A small cardboard box of nine-millimetre reloads under a tangle of red and black jump leads.

Jump Leads (2002)

Jumper cables (jump leads)

The words 'jump leads' he distantly remembered Keith uttering in connection with a flat battery, but what these things were he had no idea.

Wondering where the power was coming from, he searched the floor and saw that a pair of car batteries had been rigged to the system with jump leads.

'Maybe you need some jump leads,' says GoodNews cheerfully.

The garige man lifted up the bonnet, prodjuced the wires they called jump leads and connected them to the Anglia's battery.

Once I had explained my problem he manoeuvred his old van alongside my car, then raised his bonnet and attached the jump leads to his battery.

I got out and retrieved my jump leads from the boot, walked to the front of the car, raised the bonnet, and attached the leads to the battery.

I charged the battery each day while driving a van to pick up water, shopping etc, with jump leads from the van battery to the spare battery.

Breakdown Advice: Using Jump Leads Safely - The AA (United Kingdom)

This initially works, but he forgets to remove the jump leads from his hands when the man offers a handshake, giving the man another electric shock, making him pass out again.

Many motorists carry jumper cables (known in the UK as jump leads) which consist of a pair of heavy gauge, insulated wires with alligator clips at each end.

Aside from parodying Ichigo in a promo for Bleach, both characters were featured together in an audio CD depicting a conversation between the two Jump leads.

In his 1974 paper, "Structured Programming with Goto Statements", he gave examples where he believed that a direct jump leads to clearer and more efficient code without sacrificing provability.

Kwan's nightmare, the one where every jump leads to a potential fall instead of a potential thrill, apparently has followed her from the Nationals in Nashville, where she fell twice in her long program.

Bean tries to revive him by stomping on him, stuffing pills down his throat, trying mouth-to-mouth resuscitation (with the man's magazine) and using electric shock treatment, using jump leads connected to a nearby lamppost.

I didn't know what jump leads were then, I didn't know what he meant, but the man said of course he had, and when we'd drunk the tea he drove us home to Molucca.

Among the items you were claiming for were Chanel sunglasses, which had cost £160 a year before, a £170 tennis racket, a £50 jacket approximately 18 months old, jump leads which had cost £50 and an A-to-Z map.

Suppose that I expect a colleague to give me a lift home this evening, but that her car has a flat battery; this won't stop us, however, because a friend's car is parked conveniently near with some jump leads which we can use to get her car to start.

I worked as a recovery and breakdown mechanic for some years and every year, the first cold snap brought hundreds of calls for jump starts.I used to ponder the fact that so many of the call outs were easily avoidable with a simple set of jump leads.