yellow jack

yellow jack

noun, plural (especially collectively) yel·low jack, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) yel·low jacks for 3.
1.
Informal. quarantine flag.
2.
Pathology. yellow fever.
3.
any carangoid fish, especially a Caribbean food fish, Caranx bartholomaei.

Origin:
1830–40, Americanism
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Yellow jack is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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yellow jack
 
n
1.  pathol another name for yellow fever
2.  another name for quarantine flag
3.  any of certain large yellowish carangid food fishes, esp Caranx bartholomaei, of warm and tropical Atlantic waters

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