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“Jack and Jill”

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  1. A nursery rhyme. Its first stanza reads:

    Jack and Jill went up the hill,

    To fetch a pail of water;

    Jack fell down, and broke his crown,

    And Jill came tumbling after.


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She and other Jack and Jill members were there at Alexander’s wedding reception.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2021

The wing, now the Twin Bing Suite, has its own sitting room and a Jack and Jill bathroom equipped with a clawfoot tub and a large walk-in shower.

From Washington Times • Jul. 25, 2020

About 100 parents of children at Jack and Jill Childcare in Shiphay, Torquay, were contacted by police in November after a major investigation was launched.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2020

Week 1324, folk tales as written by a particular author: Jack and Jill, by Ernest Hemingway They had just returned from Pamplona.

From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2020

Fabulous for little Jack and Jill Mediocrity, but do they push the brightest and ablest?

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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