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yellow jack
noun
- Informal. quarantine flag.
- Pathology. yellow fever.
- any carangoid fish, especially a Caribbean food fish, Caranx bartholomaei.
yellow jack
noun
- See yellow feverpathol another name for yellow fever
- See quarantine flaganother name for quarantine flag
- any of certain large yellowish carangid food fishes, esp Caranx bartholomaei, of warm and tropical Atlantic waters
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Word History and Origins
Origin of yellow jack1
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Example Sentences
That fever, “yellow jack” as we used to call it, is truly one of the most dreadful scourges of the West Indies.
We had not been long in that treacherous clime before “Yellow Jack,” as sailors call the yellow fever, came on board.
You see, the first symptoms are similar in Yellow Jack and relapsing bilious fever.
We was twenty-four men down on the Ohio with yellow-jack, and not an ounce of anyskeptics did I swallow!
Now if we could meet an enemy, and have a good warm engagement, we should soon put Yellow Jack and him to flight together.
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