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Jack
dʒak
Jack definitions
noun
jack
jacks
jackstone
jackstones
- 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
- a playing card bearing a representation of a soldier, page, or knave, normally ranking next below a queen
- a socket designed to receive a jack plug
- 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
- a small white ball in bowls, at which the players aim
- 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
- 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
- a small version of a national flag flown at the bow of a vessel in harbour to indicate its nationality
- money
- a device for turning a spit
- 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
- 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
- the male of various animals, especially a merlin
- used in names of animals that are smaller than similar kinds, e.g. jack snipe