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jack·leg
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Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.
adjective
1.
unskilled or untrained for one's work; amateur:
a jackleg electrician.
2.
unscrupulous or without the accepted standards of one's profession:
a jackleg lawyer.
3.
makeshift; temporary.
noun
4.
an unskilled or unscrupulous itinerant worker or practitioner.
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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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Origin:
1840–50,
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(black)leg
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