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Crevalle jack
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noun
1.
any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
2.
Also called knave. Cards. a playing card bearing the picture of a soldier or servant.
3.
Electricity. a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug.
4.
(initial capital letter) Informal. fellow; buddy; man (usually used in addressing a stranger): Hey, Jack, which way to Jersey?
5.
EXPANDAlso called jackstone. Games.
b.
one of any other set of objects, as pebbles, stones, etc., used in the game of jacks.
c.
jacks, (used with a singular verb) a children's game in which small metal objects, stones, pebbles, or the like, are tossed, caught, and moved on the ground in a number of prescribed ways, usually while bouncing a rubber ball.
6.
any of several carangid fishes, especially of the genus Caranx, as C. hippos (crevalle jack or jack crevalle), of the western Atlantic Ocean.
7.
Slang. money: He won a lot of jack at the races.
9.
Nautical.
a.
a small flag flown at the jack staff of a ship, bearing a distinctive design usually symbolizing the nationality of the vessel.
b.
Also called jack crosstree. either of a pair of crosstrees at the head of a topgallant mast, used to hold royal shrouds away from the mast.
10.
(initial capital letter) a sailor.
11.
a lumberjack.
12.
13.
14.
a jackass.
15.
16.
a device for turning a spit.
17.
a small wooden rod in the mechanism of a harpsichord, spinet, or virginal that rises when the key is depressed and causes the attached plectrum to strike the string.
18.
Lawn Bowling. a small, usually white bowl or ball used as a mark for the bowlers to aim at.
19.
Also called clock jack. Horology. a mechanical figure that strikes a clock bell.
20.
a premigratory young male salmon.
21.
Theater. brace jack.
22.
COLLAPSEFalconry. the male of a kestrel, hobby, or especially of a merlin.
verb (used with object)
23.
to lift or move (something) with or as if with a jack (usually followed by up): to jack a car up to change a flat tire.
24.
Informal. to increase, raise, or accelerate (prices, wages, speed, etc.) (usually followed by up).
25.
Informal. to boost the morale of; encourage (usually followed by up).
26.
to jacklight.
verb (used without object)
27.
to jacklight.
adjective
Verb phrase28.
Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple: jack rafter; jack truss.
29.
Idiomjack off, Slang: Vulgar. to masturbate.
30.
every man jack, everyone without exception: They presented a formidable opposition, every man jack of them.
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Word Origin & History
jack
1873, jack up, originally "abandon, give up," later (1885) "hoist with a jack;" then "increase prices, etc." (1904, Amer.Eng.), all from the noun. Jack off (v.) "to masturbate" is attested from 1916, probably from jack in the sense of "penis."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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jack (sth) definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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