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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: jacks /dʒæks/ n - (functioning as singular) a game in which bone, metal, or plastic pieces (jackstones) are thrown and then picked up in various groups between bounces or throws of a small ball
Etymology: 19th Century: shortened from jackstones, variant of checkstones pebbles jack1 /dʒæk/USA pronunciation n. - Mechanical Engineering any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects a short distance off the ground:[countable]an automobile jack.
- Games Also called knave. a playing card with the picture of a soldier or servant:[countable]a pair of jacks.
- Electricity a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed so that a plug can be attached to it:[countable]a telephone jack.
- Games
- [countable] one of a set of small, six-pointed metal objects or pebbles used in the game of jacks.
- jacks, [uncountable* used with a singular verb] a children's game in which a player tosses and gathers these objects usually while bouncing a small rubber ball.
v. - to lift or move (something) with or as if with a jack: [~ + object]to jack the car on the soft grass.[~ + up + object]to jack up a car.[~ + object + up]to jack it up.
- Informal Termsto increase, raise, or accelerate (prices, wages, speed, etc.): [~ + up + object]The landlord jacked up rent illegally.[~ + object + up]They jacked oil prices up.
Idioms- every man jack, everyone without exception:The killers managed to escape, every man jack.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024jack1 ( jak),USA pronunciation n. - any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- GamesAlso called knave. [Cards.]a playing card bearing the picture of a soldier or servant.
- Electricitya connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug.
- Informal Terms(cap.) fellow;
buddy;
man (usually used in addressing a stranger):Hey, Jack, which way to Jersey? - GamesAlso called jackstone.
- 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 sing. v.) 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.
- Fishany of several carangid fishes, esp. of the genus Caranx, as C. hippos (crevalle jack or jack crevalle,) of the western Atlantic Ocean.
- Slang Termsmoney:He won a lot of jack at the races.
- Nautical
- Naval Termsa small flag flown at the jack staff of a ship, bearing a distinctive design usually symbolizing the nationality of the vessel.
- Naval TermsAlso 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.
- Naval Terms(cap.) a sailor.
- a lumberjack.
- Wineapplejack.
- MammalsSee jack rabbit.
- a jackass.
- jacklight.
- 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.
- Sport[Lawn Bowling.]a small, usually white bowl or ball used as a mark for the bowlers to aim at.
- TimeAlso called clock jack. [Horol.]a mechanical figure that strikes a clock bell.
- Fisha premigratory young male salmon.
- Show Business[Theat.]See brace jack.
- Sport[Falconry.]the male of a kestrel, hobby, or esp. of a merlin.
- Idioms every man jack, everyone without exception:They presented a formidable opposition, every man jack of them.
v.t. - to lift or move (something) with or as if with a jack (usually fol. by up):to jack a car up to change a flat tire.
- Informal Termsto increase, raise, or accelerate (prices, wages, speed, etc.) (usually fol. by up).
- Informal Termsto boost the morale of;
encourage (usually fol. by up). - to jacklight.
v.i. - to jacklight.
- Slang Terms jack off, Slang (vulgar). to masturbate.
adj. - Building[Carpentry.]having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure;
cripple:jack rafter; jack truss.
- 1350–1400; Middle English jakke, Jakke used in addressing any male, esp. a social inferior, variant of Jakken, variant of Jankin, equivalent. to Jan John + -kin -kin; extended in sense to anything male, and as a designation for a variety of inanimate objects
- Plant Biologyjackfruit.
- Malayalam cakka
- Portuguese jaca
- 1605–15
- 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.
- Middle French jaque(s), jacket, short, plain upper garment, probably after jacques peasant (see Jacquerie)
- Middle English jakke 1325–75
- a male given name, form of Jacob or John.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: jack /dʒæk/ n - 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
- a small usually white bowl at which the players aim with their own bowls
- 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
- 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 called: jackstone one of the pieces used in the game of jacks
- US
a slang word for money - every man jack ⇒ everyone without exception
- the jack ⇒ Austral slang venereal disease
adj - jack of ⇒ Austral slang tired or fed up with (something)
vb (transitive)- to lift or push (an object) with a jack
See also jack in, jack upEtymology: 16th Century jakke, variant of Jankin, diminutive of John |