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jack

/ˈd͡ʒæk/

noun 53
verb 9
adjective 1
forms 6
phrases 7

noun53

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a device whose screw or handle, worked by hand, lifts a heavy thing such as a car a little at a time and holds it up, often so that a wheel can be changed
- She used a jack to lift her car and changed the tire.
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
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.
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 switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
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(slang, euphemistic) Nothing, not anything, jack shit.
- You haven't done jack. Get up and get this room cleaned up right now!
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(US, slang) Money, cash.
- First off Regan carried fifteen grand, packed it in his clothes all the time. Real money, they tell me. Not just a top card and a bunch of hay. That's a lot of jack (or jack-shit) […]. — 1939
A man.
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A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
- After Dinner they frisk away to some known Place of Rendezvous, where (at Night) every Jack has his Jill and every Jill has her Jack. — 1723
(US) A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
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(informal) A placeholder or conventional name for any man, particularly a younger, lower-class man.
- Well, if you ever plan to motor west / Jack, take my way, it's the highway that's the best / Get your kicks on Route 66 — 1946
A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
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A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
- like an uninstructed bowler, so to speak, who thinks to attain the jack, by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it — 1822
(informal) A sailor.
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(slang) A home run.
- The year before ('76) Kingman had 37 jacks with only 502 PAs. Is that the limit? — 2001
A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
A jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus, syn. Artocarpus integrifolia).
A plant or animal.
(US, informal) A lumberjack.
(US) A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
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(US) A jackrabbit.
- Cottontails were taken along the creeks, under the willows. Their flesh was preferable to that of the jacks[…]" — 1932
A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
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(slang) A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
- When Wardell arrived on the scene, they were surprised to find that he was unshaven, and did not look too happy. One of them remarked: "The 'Jacks' (detectives) are after you." — 1935
(US, Canada) A strong alcoholic liquor, especially home-distilled or illicit.
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A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
- Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad, / Their horses are both swift of course and strong, / They run on horseback with a slender gad, / And like a speare, but that it is more long. — 1591
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(historical) A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
- Dead VVine that stinks of the Borrachio, sup / From a fovvl Jack, or greasie Maple Cup? — 1693
A pike, especially when young.
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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.
- Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap / To kiss the tender inward of thy hand, / Whilst my poor lips, which should that harvest reap, / At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand! — 1609
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(informal) A Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema), often capitalized Jack.
- In fact, most male Jacks are under 14 inches tall. Most Jacks over 14 inches tend to be Jills. — 2013
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A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
- Our hero, among his other remarks, had observed, that in this place there was no such utensil as a jack, and that all the spits were turned by dogs, […] — 1751
a tool used in manual production of glass objects (like bottles or wine glasses).
(slang) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
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(US) A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
- a heron when seeing a deer attracted by the jack — 1930
A jacqueminot rose.
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(India, slang) A sepoy.
- I hope to God his theories will not unman him in action, that he will not be musing and refining when he should be leading the Jacks […] — 1855
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(informal) Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
- Lifting the flap at the top of the spathe reveals our slender and round-headed friend "Jack," known better to botanists as the spadix. — 2003
A bocaccio (Sebastes paucispinis), a large California rockfish.
white mango (Mangifera caesia). (See .)
White mango (Mangifera caesia) of fruit-bearing plants.
(slang) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
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.
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(informal, no longer used) Ellipsis of Jack Tar, a sailor.
- When he went home on leave he rioted on a large scale—pompously. Jack ashore—with a difference—in externals only. — 1899
(no longer used) A manual laborer.
(informal, no longer used) Ellipsis of Jack Rum, a soldier.
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(UK, no longer used) A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint.
- To a pound of sugar put a jack of water. — 1747
(no longer used) A counter used to represent money in a gambling establishment.
(slang, no longer used) A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign.
(no longer used) A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck.
(no longer used) A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
(no longer used, historical) A jackcrosstree.
(no longer used) A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck-box.
(no longer used) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.

verb9

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To physically raise using a jack.
- He jacked the car so that he could replace the brake pads.
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To raise or increase.
- If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results.
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(informal) To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).
- Someone jacked my car last night!
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(informal, vulgar) To jack off, to masturbate.
- I don't even care about mine, I can get my shit off while jacking in the shower. — 2017
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(slang) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
- Therefore, even though Vizquel is certainly not a power hitter, at times he will try to jack the ball, perhaps pulling it with just enough oomph to carry down the line for a homer. — 2004
(informal) To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).
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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.
- Fruit of the orchard has been "jacked" these many generations, with Plymouth Rockers putting the hard cider barrel down into the ground to freeze, and […] — 1941
To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
To fight.

adjective1

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(Australia) Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).
- In the end, black and white were both crawling on the ground in reconciliation. Both saying that they were plain jack of each other. — 2006

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Phrases with jack

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