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jack
/dʒæk/
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What does jack mean?
noun
- A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
- A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
- A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
More meanings (63)
noun
- A sailor.
- (slang) A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
- A lumberjack.
- A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
- Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.
- a tool used in manual production of glass objects (like bottles or wine glasses).
- A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
- A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
- Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
- A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
- The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
- A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
- A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
- A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
- A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
- (slang) Money, cash.
- A strong alcoholic liquor, especially home-distilled or illicit.
- (slang) Nothing, not anything, jack shit.
- (slang) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
- (slang) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
- A pike, especially when young.
- A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
- Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
- A jackrabbit.
- A bocaccio (Sebastes paucispinis), a large California rockfish.
- white mango (Mangifera caesia). (See .)
- A Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema), often capitalized Jack.
- Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
- Any member of species of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.
- A jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus, syn. Artocarpus integrifolia).
- White mango (Mangifera caesia) of fruit-bearing plants.
- (slang) A home run.
- (informal) A placeholder or conventional name for any man, particularly a younger, lower-class man.
- A jacqueminot rose.
- (archaic) A manual laborer.
- (historical, slang) A sepoy.
- (obsolete) A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck.
- (archaic) A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
- (obsolete) A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck-box.
- (obsolete) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.
- (historical) A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
- (obsolete) A counter used to represent money in a gambling establishment.
- (archaic, historical) A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint.
- (obsolete, slang) A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign.
- (archaic, historical) A jackcrosstree.
- (archaic, informal) Ellipsis of Jack Tar, a sailor.
- (archaic, informal) Ellipsis of Jack Rum, a soldier.
verb
- To physically raise using a jack.
- To raise or increase.
- To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.
- To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).
- To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
- To fight.
- (informal) To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).
- (slang) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
- (vulgar) To jack off, to masturbate.
adjective
- Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).
proper noun
- A unisex given name derived from a pet form of the name John. Occasionally a diminutive of other given names such as Jackson, Jacob, Jacqueline or Jonathan.
- A surname.
- Jack Daniel's, a brand of Tennessee whiskey.
- An unincorporated community in Coffee County, Alabama, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Dent County, Missouri, United States.
- Ellipsis of Monterey Jack, a type of cheese.
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IPA pronunciation
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See this word in context.
And so, when he was turned out of prison again, without a penny in his pocket, he went straight to Jack Duane.
"A noisy titmouse is Jack Frost's trumpeter" may be one of those few weather-wise proverbs with a grain of truth in them.
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But the moment it is clear to the Jack that the approaching foe will find him, he jumps up and dashes away.
“Happy Jack says he knows all about his own family, but he has come along to find out if he really does.”
Then he saw old Mombi raise her arm and sprinkle the powder from the box over the pumpkin head of his man Jack.