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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: jackstraws /ˈdʒækˌstrɔːz/ n - (functioning as singular)
another name for spillikins
jack•straw ( jak′strô′),USA pronunciation n. - Gamesone of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.
- Games jackstraws, (used with a sing. v.) a game in which players compete in picking up, one by one, as many jackstraws as possible without disturbing the heap.
- [Obs.]
- a straw-stuffed figure of a man;
scarecrow;
straw man. - an insignificant person.
- after Jack Straw, name or nickname of one of the leaders of the rebellion headed by Wat Tyler in 1381 in England 1590–1600
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