Definitions for Jack

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Jack jack

Spelling: [jak]

IPA: /dʒæk/

Jack is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in Jack (acjk).

Definitions for Jack

noun

1. any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
2. Also called knave. Cards. a playing card bearing the picture of a soldier or servant.
3. Electricity. a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug.
4. (initial capital letter) Informal. fellow; buddy; man (usually used in addressing a stranger):
5. Also called jackstone. Games. 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 singular verb) 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.
6. any of several carangid fishes, especially of the genus Caranx, as C. hippos (crevalle jack or jack crevalle) of the western Atlantic Ocean.
7. Slang. money:
8. Slang: Vulgar. jack shit.
9. Nautical. a small flag flown at the jack staff of a ship, bearing a distinctive design usually symbolizing the nationality of the vessel. Also 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.
10. (initial capital letter) a sailor.
11. a lumberjack.
12. applejack.
13. jack rabbit.
14. a jackass.
15. jacklight.
16. a device for turning a spit.
17. 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.
18. Lawn Bowling. a small, usually white bowl or ball used as a mark for the bowlers to aim at.
19. Also called clock jack. Horology. a mechanical figure that strikes a clock bell.
20. a premigratory young male salmon.
21. Theater. brace jack.
22. Falconry. the male of a kestrel, hobby, or especially of a merlin.
23. jackfruit.
24. a defensive coat, usually of leather, worn in medieval times by foot soldiers and others.
25. a container for liquor, originally of waxed leather coated with tar.
26. a male given name, form of Jacob or John.
27. John ("Jack") 1917–1999, Irish political leader: prime minister 1966–73, 1977–79.
28. Bernadotte Everly [bur-nuh-dot ev-er-lee] /ˈbɜr nəˌdɒt ˈɛv ər li/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. historian.
29. Harrison (Hagan) [hey-guh n] /ˈheɪ gən/ (Show IPA), ("Jack") born 1935, U.S. astronaut, geologist, and politician: U.S. senator 1977–83.
30. Weldon John [wel-dn] /ˈwɛl dn/ (Show IPA), ("Jack") 1905–64, U.S. jazz trombonist and singer.
31. Sir John Arthur ("Jack") 1926–2014, Australian racing-car driver and designer.

Idioms

1. every man jack, everyone without exception:

adjective

1. Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple:

Verb phrases

1. jack off, Slang: Vulgar. to masturbate.

verb (used with object)

1. to lift or move (something) with or as if with a jack (usually followed by up):
2. Informal. to increase, raise, or accelerate (prices, wages, speed, etc.) (usually followed by up).
3. Informal. to boost the morale of; encourage (usually followed by up).
4. Slang. to mess up, ruin, or injure (usually followed by up):
5. to jacklight.
6. to steal:
7. to rob:

verb (used without object)

1. to jacklight.

Origin of Jack

1350-1400; Middle English jakke, Jakke used in addressing any male, especially a social inferior, variant of Jakken, variant of Jankin, equivalent to Jan John + -kin

Examples for Jack

Heinold's First and Last Chance, Oakland (jack London, Taft) You can thank Johnny Heinold for your favorite jack London book.

As I size up the scene, jack White now wears the crown … and he wears it well.

"I don't think you'll go alone," asserted jack Bates, grabbing his hat.

Chilluns always like to stay with their fathahs when they's nice as my Papa jack is.

But not even the threat of death can suppress the urge to live vicariously through jack Dawson and James Bond.

jack Bates looked up from emptying the third spoon of sugar into his coffee.

"Yes, that was another of jack's fool schemes," put in Slim.

Like a jack in the Box just sprung from coiled captivity, he begins rambling excitedly.

I—I am rather apologetic, jack, because I didn't explain to you sooner.

Starting in the 1970s, then MPAA president jack Valenti began what was to become a decades-long fight against the quota system.