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jack
1[ jak ]
noun
- any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- Also called knave. Cards. a playing card bearing the picture of a soldier or servant.
- Electricity. a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug.
Hey, Jack, which way to Jersey?
- Also called jackstone. Games.
- one of a set of small metal objects having six prongs, used in the game of jacks.
- one of any other set of objects, as pebbles, stones, etc., used in the game of jacks.
- jacks, (used with a singular verb) a children's game in which small metal objects, stones, pebbles, or the like, are tossed, caught, and moved on the ground in a number of prescribed ways, usually while bouncing a rubber ball.
- any of several carangid fishes, especially of the genus Caranx, as C. hippos crevalle jack, or jack crevalle, of the western Atlantic Ocean.
- Slang. money:
He won a lot of jack at the races.
- Slang: Vulgar. jack shit.
- Nautical.
- a small flag flown at the jack staff of a ship, bearing a distinctive design usually symbolizing the nationality of the vessel.
- Also called jack crosstree. either of a pair of crosstrees at the head of a topgallant mast, used to hold royal shrouds away from the mast.
- Jack, a sailor.
- a device for turning a spit.
- a small wooden rod in the mechanism of a harpsichord, spinet, or virginal that rises when the key is depressed and causes the attached plectrum to strike the string.
- Lawn Bowling. a small, usually white bowl or ball used as a mark for the bowlers to aim at.
- Also called clock jack. Horology. a mechanical figure that strikes a clock bell.
- a premigratory young male salmon.
- Theater. brace jack.
- Falconry. the male of a kestrel, hobby, or especially of a merlin.
verb (used with object)
- to lift or move (something) with or as if with a jack (usually followed by up ):
to jack a car up to change a flat tire.
- Informal. to increase, raise, or accelerate (prices, wages, speed, etc.) (usually followed by up ).
- Informal. to boost the morale of; encourage (usually followed by up ).
- Slang. to mess up, ruin, or injure (usually followed by up ): I jacked my shoulder when I fell.
The paint job was all jacked up.
I jacked my shoulder when I fell.
- to jacklight.
verb (used without object)
- to jacklight.
adjective
- Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple:
jack rafter; jack truss.
verb phrase
- Slang. to give oneself an injection of a controlled substance:
After 30 heroin-free days, he was let out for the afternoon and came straight to my door, begging to jack up.
- Slang: Vulgar. to masturbate.
jack
2[ jak ]
verb (used with object)
- to steal: Hackers jacked my email account in a phishing scam.
Some neighborhood kids jacked her car and took it for a joyride.
Hackers jacked my email account in a phishing scam.
- to rob:
He got jacked on his way home from the club.
jack
3[ jak ]
noun
jack
4[ jak ]
noun
- a defensive coat, usually of leather, worn in medieval times by foot soldiers and others.
- a container for liquor, originally of waxed leather coated with tar.
jack
1/ dʒæk /
noun
- short for jackfruit
Jack
2/ dʒæk /
noun
- I'm all right, Jack informal.
- a remark indicating smug and complacent selfishness
- ( as modifier )
an ``I'm all right, Jack'' attitude
jack
3/ dʒæk /
noun
- a man or fellow
- a sailor
- the male of certain animals, esp of the ass or donkey
- a mechanical or hydraulic device for exerting a large force, esp to raise a heavy weight such as a motor vehicle
- any of several mechanical devices that replace manpower, such as a contrivance for rotating meat on a spit
- one of four playing cards in a pack, one for each suit, bearing the picture of a young prince; knave
- bowls a small usually white bowl at which the players aim with their own bowls
- electrical engineering a female socket with two or more terminals designed to receive a male plug ( jack plug ) that either makes or breaks the circuit or circuits
- a flag, esp a small flag flown at the bow of a ship indicating the ship's nationality Compare Union Jack
- nautical either of a pair of crosstrees at the head of a topgallant mast used as standoffs for the royal shrouds
- a part of the action of a harpsichord, consisting of a fork-shaped device on the end of a pivoted lever on which a plectrum is mounted
- any of various tropical and subtropical carangid fishes, esp those of the genus Caranx, such as C. hippos ( crevalle jack )
- Also calledjackstone one of the pieces used in the game of jacks
- a slang word for money
- every man jackeveryone without exception
- the jack slang.venereal disease
adjective
- jack of slang.tired or fed up with (something)
verb
- to lift or push (an object) with a jack
- electrical engineering to connect (an electronic device) with another by means of a jack and a jack plug
- Alsojacklight to hunt (fish or game) by seeking them out or dazzling them with a flashlight
jack
4/ dʒæk /
noun
- a short sleeveless coat of armour of the Middle Ages, consisting usually of a canvas base with metal plates
- archaic.a drinking vessel, often of leather
Word History and Origins
Origin of jack1
Origin of jack2
Origin of jack3
Word History and Origins
Origin of jack1
Origin of jack2
Origin of jack3
Idioms and Phrases
- every man jack, everyone without exception:
They presented a formidable opposition, every man jack of them.
More idioms and phrases containing jack
- before you can say Jack Robinson
Example Sentences
That could be a factor if Trump’s economic policies, such as his intention to jack up tariffs on all imported goods, produce a recession.
“All of this was driven by a kind of obsessive attempt to jack up the school’s rankings,” Mr. Campos said.
Stephen, recruited for his ability to provide the necessary tools, had produced a 100-tonne jack, explosives, and a thermal lance, which heats and melts steel with pressurized oxygen to create very high temperatures.
Every other element of Christmas is also jacked: the snowmen, the polar bears and even the elves or, rather, the E.L.F.
A muscular, red bandanna wearing “hot, jacked” version of Trump was introduced by impressionist James Austin Johnson, who said as Trump, “They finally got the body right.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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