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单词 jackleg
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jackleg


jack·leg

J0003800 (jăk′lĕg′) Chiefly Southern & South Midland US adj.1. Lacking skill or training; incompetent. Used especially of lawyers or preachers.2. Unscrupulous or dishonest.3. Makeshift; temporary.n.1. An unskilled or unscrupulous itinerant worker.2. A strikebreaker.
[Perhaps jack + (black)leg.]

jackleg

(ˈdʒæklɛɡ) adjamateur; untrained; incompetent

jack•leg

(ˈdʒækˌlɛg)
Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. adj. 1. unskilled or untrained; amateur. 2. lacking professional scruples; unethical. 3. makeshift; temporary. n. 4. an unskilled or unscrupulous itinerant worker or practitioner. [1840–50]

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jackleg

[′jak‚leg] (engineering) A supporting bar used with a jackhammer.
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