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jak] 
| 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. | Also called jackstone. Games.
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| 6. | any of several carangid fishes, esp. 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. |
| 8. | Slang: Vulgar.. jack shit. |
| 9. | Nautical.
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| 10. | (initial capital letter) a sailor. |
| 11. | a lumberjack. |
| 12. | applejack. |
| 13. | jack rabbit. |
| 14. | a jackass. |
| 15. | jacklight. |
| 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. | Falconry. the male of a kestrel, hobby, or esp. of a merlin. |
| 23. | to lift or move (something) with or as if with a jack (usually fol. by up): to jack a car up to change a flat tire. |
| 24. | Informal. to increase, raise, or accelerate (prices, wages, speed, etc.) (usually fol. by up). |
| 25. | Informal. to boost the morale of; encourage (usually fol. by up). |
| 26. | to jacklight. |
| 27. | to jacklight. |
| 28. | Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple: jack rafter; jack truss. |
| 29. | jack 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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