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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.
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Electricity. a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug.
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(initial capital letter) Informal. fellow; buddy; man (usually used in addressing a stranger): Hey, Jack, which way to Jersey?
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EXPANDAlso called jackstone. Games.
a.
one of a set of small metal objects having six prongs, used in the game of jacks.
b.
one of any other set of objects, as pebbles, stones, etc., used in the game of jacks.
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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.
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any of several carangid fishes, especially of the genus Caranx, as C. hippos (crevalle jack or jack crevalle), of the western Atlantic Ocean.
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Slang. money: He won a lot of jack at the races.
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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.
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(initial capital letter) a sailor.
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a lumberjack.
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a jackass.
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a device for turning a spit.
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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.
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Lawn Bowling. a small, usually white bowl or ball used as a mark for the bowlers to aim at.
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Also called clock jack. Horology. a mechanical figure that strikes a clock bell.
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a premigratory young male salmon.
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Theater. brace jack.
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COLLAPSEFalconry. the male of a kestrel, hobby, or especially of a merlin.
verb (used with object)
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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).
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Informal. to boost the morale of; encourage (usually followed by up).
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to jacklight.
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| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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.
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Idiomjack off, Slang: Vulgar. to masturbate.
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every man jack, everyone without exception: They presented a formidable opposition, every man jack of them.
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noun
1.
a defensive coat, usually of leather, worn in medieval times by foot soldiers and others.
2.
a container for liquor, originally of waxed leather coated with tar.
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English jakke < Middle French jaque(s), jacket, short, plain upper garment, probably after jacques peasant (see Jacquerie)
1325–75; Middle English jakke < Middle French jaque(s), jacket, short, plain upper garment, probably after jacques peasant (see Jacquerie)
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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."
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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jacks
game of great antiquity and worldwide distribution, now played with stones, bones, seeds, filled cloth bags, or metal or plastic counters (the jacks), with or without a ball. The name derives from "chackstones"-stones to be tossed. The knuckle, wrist, or ankle bones (astragals) of goats, sheep, or other animals also have been used in play. Such objects have been found in prehistoric caves in Kiev, Ukraine, and pictures of the game are depicted on jars from ancient Greece.
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