Today's Word "Trampoline"
Published in Vocabulary
Trampoline \TRAEM-peh-leen\ (noun) - A unit of athletic equipment comprising a piece of resilient cloth or netting stretched across a frame and used for acrobatic jumping and tumbling.
"If you go to work for the company that Dennis works for, you're putting your career on a trampoline."
From Italian trampolino "trampoline", in turn from trampoli "stilts". Apparently the semantics are from the common acrobatic performance above everyone else. Italian trampoli is derived from Middle German trampeln "stomp, trample".
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