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jackpot
[ jak-pot ]
noun
- the chief prize or the cumulative stakes in a game or contest, as in bingo, a quiz contest, or a slot machine.
- Poker. a pot that accumulates until a player opens the betting with a pair of predetermined denomination, usually jacks or better.
- an outstanding reward or success.
jackpot
/ ˈdʒækˌpɒt /
noun
- any large prize, kitty, or accumulated stake that may be won in gambling, such as a pool in poker that accumulates until the betting is opened with a pair of jacks or higher
- hit the jackpot
- to win a jackpot
- to achieve great success, esp through luck
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Word History and Origins
Origin of jackpot1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of jackpot1
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Idioms and Phrases
- hit the jackpot, Informal.
- to achieve a sensational success; have sudden luck:
The firm has hit the jackpot with its new line of computers.
- to win a jackpot.
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Example Sentences
In the meantime, he takes trips to Vegas, sometimes sleeping in his car or in movie theaters for weeks, hoping to hit the jackpot.
Just a few blocks down on Sixth Avenue in Birmingham, they hit the jackpot.
Hillary Clinton, of course, hit the jackpot with her comparison of Putin to Hitler (never mind her clarification the next day).
The jackpot hit when Matthew McConaughey read the script and said, “I want to do this.”
From tour guides to chefs, glass blowers to club owners, they each tout different talents to hit the jackpot.
Did the preacher gent die, er did Brother Peyton jump the game, taking the jackpot with him?
"Let him keep the doggone calf and we'll have to put up a jackpot for the feller that owns it," advised Bronco.
It was jackpot; the chips were piled high; and the man in the linen coat was dealing again.
Jimmie Greeley was raking in a jackpot, grinning fiendishly at the dour Jim Hutch when they heard heavy, running feet outside.
"Instead of bein' a jackpot bunch of triflin' no-account scalawags," murmured Jack.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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