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jack⋅a⋅tar

  [jak-uh-tahr]
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–noun Newfoundland.
a Newfoundland native of mixed French and Amerindian descent.
Also, jackie tar, jacky tar.

Origin:
1855–60; perh. jack-tar (with -a- repr. release of the stop) though the change in sense is unaccounted for
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