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
1830–40, Americanism
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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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