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Jack   /dʒæk/   Listen
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



... places employed a vast number of workmen—carpenters, caulkers, painters, riggers, carvers of figure-heads, block-makers, stevedores, lightermen, watermen, victuallers, tavern-keepers, and all the roguery and ribauderie that always gather round mercantile Jack ashore. A crowded suburb indeed it was, and for the most part with no gentlefolk to give the people an example of conduct, temperance, and religion—at best the master-mariners, a decorous people, and the better class of tradesmen, to lead the way to church. And as time went on the better class ...
— As We Are and As We May Be • Sir Walter Besant

... and Mr. Trevor Lowe as the First and Second Demon, Mr. Valentine Grace as Shemus Rua, Master Charles Sefton as Teig, Madame San Carola as Mary, Miss Florence Farr as Aleel, Miss Anna Mather as Oona, Mr. Charles Holmes as the Herdsman, Mr. Jack Wilcox as the Gardener, Mr. Walford as a Peasant, Miss Dorothy Paget as a Spirit, Miss M. Kelly as a Peasant Woman, Mr. T. E. Wilkinson as a Servant, and Miss May Whitty as The Countess Kathleen. They had to face a very vehement opposition stirred up by a politician ...
— The Countess Cathleen • William Butler Yeats

... all-merciful, as every creed proclaims, could punish the unfortunate wretch who hatches criminal thoughts behind the slanting brows of a criminal head? A doctor has but to glance at the cranium to predicate the crime. In its worst forms all crime, from Nero to Jack the Ripper, is the product of absolute lunacy, and those gross national sins to which allusion has been made seem to point to collective national insanity. Surely, then, there is hope that no very terrible inferno is needed to further punish those who have been so afflicted ...
— The Vital Message • Arthur Conan Doyle

... and they were urged forward with all haste. The yak is a fast-moving animal, and started forward on a run, soon gaining the shelter selected. It should be stated that when the team, which had been named Jack and Jill, was first broken in, the animals were taught to be driven by means of lines, and this was now of great ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen • Roger Finlay

... handsome in spite of his rusticity. It was getting late, and he left the street just as I saw him. I followed, waiting until we got to a private place before I would speak to him, however, as I knew he would be mortified to be taken for the friend of a Jack-tar, in ...
— Afloat And Ashore • James Fenimore Cooper


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