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/dʒˈækpˌɑt/ Listen

noun

Jackpot n.

Same as jack pot. See under jack.

Any larger-than-usual gambling prize formed by the accumulation of unwon bets.

The highest gambling prize awarded in a gambling game in which smaller prizes are also awarded, especially such a prize on a slot machine.

An unusually large success in an enterprise, either unexpected or unpredictable, esp. one providing a great financial benefit.

hit the jackpot to receive an unexpectedly large (or the largest possible) benefit from an enterprise; as, after prospecting for years, he finally hit the jackpot when he discovered a silver lode.

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Etymology of 'Jackpot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jackpot" Quotes from Famous Books

... seemed to wander far from the business in hand. That business being poker, and Landers all attention to the cards and the psychology of his antagonists, every time Llewellyn harked to the himene he lost a little, and when he became entangled in a jackpot of size, and drew too many cards on account of his abstraction, he was mulcted of fifty francs and failed of winning the two hundred he might ...

— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... later we was chuggin' away from the little natural jackpot that we'd opened so successful, headed for the Agnes. And, believe me, the old yacht looks mighty homey and invitin', lyin' there in the calm of the mornin' with all her awnin's spread and a trickle of blue smoke driftin' up ...

— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford

... take five, too, and he did; and the first thing you know I had everything that Percival owned, owin' to his misjudging the way them cards would fall. Then we divided again and went at it. At the end of the next week I was proud of Percival. He fronted me out of a plump jackpot without a tremble of a gray whisker, but, to save me, I couldn't get him to play cards. He said it was wicked and led to gamblin'—I dunno but what he's right at that. We had lots of fun with the Uncertainty of Things, ...

— Mr. Scraggs • Henry Wallace Phillips

... dollars each in a jackpot, the Eminent Person dealing, the Stockman modestly opened for two hundred. The Transient stayed, as did the Merchant and the Judge, the latter mildly stating that he would lie low and let some one else play ...

— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes

... he was going to keep the jackpot. Not by a long shot. Mallory encephalopathed Easy Money to his side and pulled himself to his feet with the help of the left stirrup and hung his helmet on the pommel. Then he picked up his spear and clambered into the saddle. "We're not beat yet, Easy ...

— A Knyght Ther Was • Robert F. Young