the jack of clubs, esp. in a form of loo in which it is the best trump
2.
a game in which this card is trump
Word origin
[1675–85; short for F pamphile, special use of Pamphile man's name]This word is first recorded in the period 1675–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: eclectic, explorer, hustle, prairie, upstream