bumper jack

English

Noun

bumper jack (plural bumper jacks)

1. (automotive, largely historical) A jack designed to lift a car by its bumper.
   • 1971 April, “Buy an auto jack that won’t let you down”, in Changing Times, The Kiplinger Magazine:

     On level ground a safer alternative to the ordinary bumper jack is the kind with one or more legs.

   • 2012, Larry Wade Livingston, “Thank you; but!”, in Short Stories from My Heart‎, page 57:

     For us old timers; I removed their bumper jack. I placed the base under the back bumper and inserted the long notched pole into it.