jack
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- a device for lifting heavy objects, especially one for raising the axle of a motor vehicle off the ground so that a wheel can be changed or the underside inspected.；a playing card bearing a representation of a soldier, page, or knave, normally ranking next below a queen.
noun: jack, plural noun: jacks
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- 1. a device for lifting heavy objects, especially one for raising the axle of a motor vehicle off the ground so that a wheel can be changed or the underside inspected.
- 2. a playing card bearing a representation of a soldier, page, or knave, normally ranking next below a queen.
- 3. a socket designed to receive a jack plug.
- 4. a plug used in a jack socket, consisting of a shaft used to make a connection that transmits a signal, typically used in sound equipment.
- 5. a small white ball in bowls, at which the players aim.
- 6. a game played by tossing and catching small round pebbles or star-shaped pieces of metal or plastic.
- ▪ a pebble or piece of metal or plastic used in the game of jacks.
- 7. informal used to typify an ordinary man he had that world-weary look of the working Jack who'd seen everything
- ▪ US informal used as a form of address to a man whose name is not known.
- ▪ North American informal a lumberjack.
- ▪ a detective or police officer.
- ▪ archaic a steeplejack.
- ▪ the figure of a man striking the bell on a clock.
- 8. a small version of a national flag flown at the bow of a vessel in harbour to indicate its nationality.
- 9. North American informal, dated money.
- 10. a device for turning a spit.
- 11. a part of the mechanism in a spinet or harpsichord that connects a key to its corresponding string and causes the string to be plucked when the key is pressed down.
- 12. a marine fish that is typically laterally compressed with a row of large spiky scales along each side, important in many places as food or game fish.
- 13. the male of various animals, especially a merlin.
- 14. used in names of animals that are smaller than similar kinds, e.g. jack snipe.
- 15. US informal short for jack shit
- physically or mentally stimulated from the effects of a drug or stimulant: a race car driver, jacked up on amphetamines
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- physically or mentally stimulated from the effects of a drug or stimulant: a racing car driver, jacked up on amphetamines
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- a device for lifting heavy objects, especially one for raising the axle of a motor vehicle off ...
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- take (something) illicitly; steal: what's wrong is to jack somebody's lyrics and not acknowledge the fact
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- another term for blackjack
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- take (something) illicitly; steal: his MO in the studio remains the same—jack other people's tracks and present them in a new context
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- another term for blackjack
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- tired of or bored with someone or something: people are getting jack of strikes
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- tired of or bored with someone or something: people are getting jack of strikes
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