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Smoke jumper

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1940, OED Evaluation: North American

a forest-fire fighter who arrives by parachute.

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Speaker: Ah, I wanted to do something a little more adventurous, a little more exciting, more dangerous. I wanted actually to be a smoke jumper. Interviewer: What's a smoke jumper? Speaker: The guys that go into a forest fire and they'll- they get dropped, they jump out of a helicopter or a plane inside the ah- the other side of the fire and then try to fight the fire from the inside out.
a forest-fire fighter who arrives by parachute.