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Jack

noun

1.

A small worthless amount. Synonyms: diddley, diddly, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, shit, squat.

2.

A man who serves as a sailor. Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman, tar.

3.

Someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor. Synonyms: laborer, labourer, manual laborer.

4.

Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted. Synonyms: jackfruit, jak.

5.

A small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling.

6.

An electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug.

7.

Game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks. Synonym: jackstones.

8.

Small flag indicating a ship's nationality.

9.

One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince. Synonym: knave.

10.

Tool for exerting pressure or lifting.

11.

Any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas.

12.

Male donkey. Synonym: jackass.

verb

1.

Lift with a special device. Synonym: jack up.

2.

Hunt with a jacklight. Synonym: jacklight.

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"Jack" Quotes from Famous Books

... tangled me at the start. But I did not budge until I had unraveled them every one. Mrs. Jones declared there was no reason for the disappearance of Tom; his aunt Quincy said her flightiness had driven him to it; and Cousin Jack, Mrs. Tom's adviser, thought it just a freak after much dissipation, for Tom had been acting queerly for months before he did the vanishing act. The three were talking either from spleen or the wish to hide the truth. When there was no trace of Tom after a month of ordinary searching ...

— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith

... about "The jack of all trades," but the aftermath of the jack of all trades is "master ...

— Dollars and Sense • Col. Wm. C. Hunter

... "Jack, God damn me, Jack, how dost do? How hast thou done this long time, by God?" And then they kiss; and the other, as lewd as ...

— An Essay Upon Projects • Daniel Defoe

... it work?" The red-headed one set a soldering iron in place and began to jack up the rear wheel to get at the tire. "Crazy idea, if you ask me. I told Miss Evelyn so. She laughed and said she'd be in the ball when it ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various

... the river, of course, as they all do—you can almost fish out of the coffee-room window of the "Ferry" at Cookham—and all the life of the boat-houses, the punts and wherries, with their sprawling cushions and bunches of jack-straw oars, and tows, back and forth, of empty boats, goes on just as it does at the other boat-landings, up and down the river; but, at the White Hart, it is the rose garden that counts! Planted in rows, like corn, their stalks straight as walking-sticks and as big; then a flare of smaller ...

— A Gentleman's Gentleman - 1909 • F. Hopkinson Smith

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