bungee

[buhn-jee]

noun

Aeronautics. any of certain springs or elastic tension devices, as the springs attached to movable controls of aircraft to facilitate their manipulation.

bungee cord.

Origin of bungee

origin uncertain

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Contemporary Examples of bungee

Even more luckily, that bungee cord was short enough to keep it from crashing.
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Even a brief dive—a bungee jump, if you will—would be scary indeed.
Megan McArdle on Why We Need to Jump Off the Fiscal Cliff
Megan McArdle
November 30, 2012

Word Origin and History for bungee

1930, "elastic rope;" used in late 19c. British schoolboy slang for "rubber eraser;" probably from notions of bouncy and spongy; first record of bungee jumping is from 1979.