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Happy Jack

British  

noun

  1. another name for grey-crowned babbler

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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This year’s field of nine has three returnees from the Derby that went off with 20 in the starting gate: Epicenter, Simplification, and Happy Jack.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2022

Happy Jack, trained by Doug O’Neill, is one of two Southern California-based horses in the race.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2022

Happy Jack is named after a song by The Who.

From New York Times • May 7, 2022

Happy Jack is in a forested area north of Payson and south of Flagstaff.

From Washington Times • Aug. 14, 2019

Happy Jack was best at that, and several times in a fit of emulation he shoved some puncher aside and showed him how it ought to be done—but never for Bowles.

From Bat Wing Bowles by Coolidge, Dane

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