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Jack

dʒak

Jack definitions
noun
jack jacks jackstone jackstones
  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. used to typify an ordinary man

    "he had that world-weary look of the working Jack who'd seen everything"

    • used as a form of address to a man whose name is not known
    • a lumberjack
    • a detective or police officer
    • 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. 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