Definitions for jacks
jacks
jack
Spelling: [jak]
IPA: /dʒæk/
Jacks is a 5 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.
You can make 40 anagrams from letters in jacks (acjks).
Definitions for jacks
noun
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any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
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Also called knave. Cards. a playing card bearing the picture of a soldier or servant.
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Electricity. a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug.
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(initial capital letter) Informal. fellow; buddy; man (usually used in addressing a stranger):
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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.
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any of several carangid fishes, especially of the genus Caranx, as C. hippos (crevalle jack or jack crevalle) of the western Atlantic Ocean.
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Slang. money:
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Slang: Vulgar. jack shit.
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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.
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(initial capital letter) a sailor.
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a lumberjack.
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applejack.
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jack rabbit.
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a jackass.
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jacklight.
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a device for turning a spit.
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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.
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Lawn Bowling. a small, usually white bowl or ball used as a mark for the bowlers to aim at.
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Also called clock jack. Horology. a mechanical figure that strikes a clock bell.
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a premigratory young male salmon.
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Theater. brace jack.
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Falconry. the male of a kestrel, hobby, or especially of a merlin.
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jackfruit.
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a defensive coat, usually of leather, worn in medieval times by foot soldiers and others.
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a container for liquor, originally of waxed leather coated with tar.
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a male given name, form of Jacob or John.
Idioms
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every man jack, everyone without exception:
adjective
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Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple:
Verb phrases
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jack off, Slang: Vulgar. to masturbate.
verb (used with object)
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to lift or move (something) with or as if with a jack (usually followed by up):
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Informal. to increase, raise, or accelerate (prices, wages, speed, etc.) (usually followed by up).
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Informal. to boost the morale of; encourage (usually followed by up).
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Slang. to mess up, ruin, or injure (usually followed by up):
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to jacklight.
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to steal:
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to rob:
verb (used without object)
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to jacklight.
Origin of jacks
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 jacks
Bonnie gear for a king that should be thinking of spears and jacks, lances and honours.
But by the fourth card Lefty had given himself a pair of jacks.
According to a florist's magazine "jacks are becoming cheap."
Offhand, I can think of two jacks—Jack of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” and Jack the Ripper, who cut quite a figure in his day.
Three jacks of the wine of the country, Michel—for the air bites shrewdly.
The trader an' that whole crowd, they'll be after us soon in their jacks.
All its fruits were mangoes, plantains and jacks; not cold apples or icy quinces.
There was the taking of the sea-rovers, and the holding of the keep against the jacks.
Signals, ensigns, and jacks of all colours were flying from her rigging, on every side.
Ye're planning to speed that thing before ye've got it off the jacks.