jack : Idioms & Phrases

Ap"ple-jack` noun

Definitions

1. Apple brandy. U.S.

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• noun United States general who commanded the American forces in Europe during World War I (1860-1948)
  Pershing; John Joseph Pershing.
  

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Black"-jack` noun

Definitions

1. (Min.) A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende.
2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.
3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc. Obs.
4. (Bot.) The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.
5. The ensign of a pirate.

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• noun small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
  cohoe; coho; Oncorhynchus kisutch; coho salmon; silver salmon.
  

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• blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.

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• blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.

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• noun a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper
  

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• noun a seller of shoddy goods
  huckster.
  

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Cheap"-jack`, Cheap"-john` noun (Also<

• Cheap-jack
• Cheap-john

)

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1. A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.

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• noun fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
  crevalle jack; Caranx hippos.
  

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• noun card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game
  all fours.
  

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• a jack used for lifting, pulling, or forcing, consisting of a compact portable hydrostatic press, with its pump and a reservoir containing a supply of liquid, as oil.

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• an arch of the thickness of one brick.

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• (Brewing & Malt Vinegar Manuf.), a cistern which receives the wort. See under 1st Back.

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• noun annual semi-erect bushy plant of tropical South America bearing long pods with white seeds grown especially for forage
  wonder bean; giant stock bean; Canavalia ensiformis.
  

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• noun United States comedian known for his timeing and delivery and self-effacing humor (1894-1974)
  Benjamin Kubelsky; Benny.
  

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• (Naut.), a block fixed in the topgallant or royal rigging, used for raising and lowering light masts and spars.

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• boots reaching above the knee; worn in the 17 century by soldiers; afterwards by fishermen, etc. see jack-booted

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• noun fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
  crevalle jack; Caranx hippos.
  

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• . (Naut.) See 10, b, above.

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• (Zoöl.), the whimbrel.

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• noun United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (1895-1983)
  Dempsey; Manassa Mauler; William Harrison Dempsey.
  

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• . (Cotton Spinning) See 4 (g), above.

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• noun a personification of frost or winter weather
  

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• frost personified as a mischievous person.

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• a male hare. Cowper.

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• noun 35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963)
  JFK; Kennedy; President John F. Kennedy; John Fitzgerald Kennedy; President Kennedy.
  

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• noun United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969)
  Kerouac; Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac.
  

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Jack" Ketch"

Etymology

Perh. fr. Jack, the proper name + Prov. E. ketch a hangman, fr. ketch, for catch to seize; but see the citations below.

Definitions

1. A public executioner, or hangman. Eng.

   The manor of Tyburn was formerly held by Richard Jaquett, where felons for a long time were executed; from whence we have Jack Ketch. Lloyd's MS., British Museum.

   [Monmouth] then accosted John Ketch, the executioner, a wretch who had butchered many brave and noble victims, and whose name has, during a century and a half, been vulgarly given to all who have succeeded him in his odious office. Macaulay.

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• noun (nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps
  Jacob's ladder; pilot ladder.
  

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• a lamp for still hunting and camp use. See def. 4 (n.), above.

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• noun United States film actor (1925-2001)
  John Uhler; Lemmon.
  

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• noun United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916)
  John Griffith Chaney; London.
  

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• noun a California food fish
  Spanish mackerel; saurel; Trachurus symmetricus; horse mackerel.
  

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• noun United States golfer considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time (born in 1940)
  Nicklaus; Jack Nicklaus.
  

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• noun a common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad three-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets
  Quercus marilandica; blackjack; blackjack oak.
  
• noun small to medium deciduous oak of east central North America; leaves have sharply pointed lobes
  northern pin oak; Quercus ellipsoidalis.
  

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• noun a person able to do a variety of different jobs acceptably well
  
• noun a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks
  odd-job man; handyman.
  

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• verb get sexual gratification through self-stimulation
  fuck off; wank; jerk off; she-bop; masturbate.
  

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• noun slender medium-sized two-needled pine of eastern North America; with yellow-green needles and scaly grey to red-brown fissured bark
  Pinus banksiana.
  

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• noun a carpenter's plane for rough finishing
  

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• a joiner's plane used for coarse work.

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• one of the posts which support the crank shaft of a deep-well-boring apparatus.

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• (Poker Playing), the name given to the stakes, contributions to which are made by each player successively, till such a hand is turned as shall take the "pot," which is the sum total of all the bets. see also jackpot

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large American hares, having very large ears and long legs. The California species (Lepus Californicus), and that of Texas and New Mexico (L. callotis), have the tail black above, and the ears black at the tip. They do not become white in winter. The more northern prairie hare (L. campestris) has the upper side of the tail white, and in winter its fur becomes nearly white.

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• (Arch.), in England, one of the shorter rafters used in constructing a hip or valley roof; in the United States, any secondary roof timber, as the common rafters resting on purlins in a trussed roof; also, one of the pieces simulating extended rafters, used under the eaves in some styles of building.

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• noun United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972)
  Jackie Robinson; Robinson.
  

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• noun pike-like freshwater perches
  walleyed pike; dory; walleye; Stizostedion vitreum.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the wall-eyed pike, or glasseye.

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• an impudent fellow. Colloq. & Obs.

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• (Mach.), the first intermediate shaft, in a factory or mill, which receives power, through belts or gearing, from a prime mover, and transmits it, by the same means, to other intermediate shafts or to a line shaft.

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• (Knitting Mach.), a thin iron plate operated by the jack to depress the loop of thread between two needles.

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• . (Zoöl.) See in the Vocabulary.

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• (Naut.), a staff fixed on the bowsprit cap, upon which the jack is hoisted.

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• the hero of a well-known nursery story.

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• noun an unidentified English murderer in the 19th century
  

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• (Arch.), any timber, as a rafter, rib, or studding, which, being intercepted, is shorter than the others.

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• a towel hung on a roller for common use.

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• . (Bot.) See 1st Jack, n.

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• (Arch.), in a hip roof, a minor truss used where the roof has not its full section.

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• verb lift with a special device
  jack.
  
  • jack up the car so you can change the tire

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• noun United States golfer considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time (born in 1940)
  Nicklaus; Jack Nicklaus.
  

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• (Naut.), a short spar to extend a topsail beyond the gaff.

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Jack`-a-dan"dy noun

Definitions

1. A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.

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• noun a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent
  Omphalotus illudens; jack-a-lantern; jack-o-lantern.
  

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Jack"-a-lent noun

Definitions

1. A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow.

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• . (a) One called upon to take the place of another in an emergency . (b) An itinerant parson who conducts an occasional service for a fee.

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• one who can turn his hand to any kind of work.

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• noun European herb that smells like garlic
  sauce-alone; garlic mustard; hedge garlic; Alliaria officinalis.
  

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• (Bot.), a plant of the genus Erysimum (E. alliaria, or Alliaria officinalis), which grows under hedges. It bears a white flower and has a taste not unlike garlic. Called also, in England, sauce-alone. Eng. Cyc.

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• . (a) (Bot.) A tropical tree (Hernandia sonora), which bears a drupe that rattles when dry in the inflated calyx . (b) A child's toy, consisting of a box, out of which, when the lid is raised, a figure springs . (c) (Mech.) An epicyclic train of bevel gears for transmitting rotary motion to two parts in such a manner that their relative rotation may be variable; applied to driving the wheels of tricycles, road locomotives, and to cotton machinery, etc.; an equation box; a jack frame; called also compensating gearing . (d) A large wooden screw turning in a nut attached to the crosspiece of a rude press.

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• an insolent fellow in authority. Wolcott.

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• noun plaything consisting of a toy clown that jumps out of a box when the lid is opened
  

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• (Bot.), a tropical shrub with red fruit (Cordia Cylindrostachya).

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• a chimney sweep inclosed in a framework of boughs, carried in Mayday processions.

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• noun common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
  Arisaema atrorubens; wake-robin; Arisaema triphyllum; Indian turnip.
  
• noun common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum
  cuckoopint; Arum maculatum; lords-and-ladies.
  

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• (Bot.), the American plant Arisæma triphyllum, or Indian turnip, in which the upright spadix is inclosed.

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• noun a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground
  friar's lantern; ignis fatuus; will-o'-the-wisp.
  
• noun lantern carved from a pumpkin
  

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Jack"-o'-lan`tern noun

Definitions

1. See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack.

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• noun a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent
  Omphalotus illudens; jack-a-lantern; jack-o-lantern.
  

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• noun a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent
  Omphalotus illudens; jack-a-lantern; jack-o-lantern.
  

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• (Bot.), the stonecrop (Sedum acre).

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• a figure, usually of a man, on old clocks, which struck the time on the bell.

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• one who is or tries to be neutral.

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• one who has been in office and is turned out. Shak.

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• noun a man who serves as a sailor
  tar; old salt; sea dog; seaman; gob; Jack; seafarer; mariner.
  

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• . (a) An ignis fatuus; a will-o'-the-wisp . "[Newspaper speculations] supplying so many more jack-o'-lanterns to the future historian." Lowell. (b) A lantern made of a pumpkin so prepared as to show in illumination the features of a human face, etc.

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• noun slang for masturbation
  wank; hand job; jerking off.
  

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• noun plaything consisting of a toy figure with movable joints that can be made to dance by pulling strings
  

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• a toy figure of a man, jointed and made to jump or dance by means of strings.

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• . See 2d Jack, n., 4 (l) & (n).

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• . See Jack, n., 5.

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• . See 2d Jack, 5.

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• noun a single individual
  
  • every man jack

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Mi*nute"-jack` noun

Definitions

1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.
2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak.

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• noun a jack for plugging in a telephone
  phone jack.
  

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• a flag or signal hoisted by a vessel for a pilot.

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• (Zoöl.), an African puff adder (Clotho nasicornis) having a spine on the nose.

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• a machine for turning a spit on which meat is roasted.

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• noun screw-operated jack
  jackscrew.
  

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• . Same as Jackscrew.

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• noun notable English cricketer (1882-1963)
  Hobbs; John Berry Hobbs.
  

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• noun a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards
  beggar-my-neighbour; beggar-my-neighbor.
  

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Sup"ple-jack` noun

Definitions

1. (Bot.) (a) A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem. (b) A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem.

   He was in form and spirit like a supple-jack, . . . yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke. W. Irving.

   ✍ This name is given to various plants of similar habit in different British colonies.

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• noun a jack for plugging in a telephone
  phone jack.
  

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• noun national flag of the United Kingdom
  Union flag.
  

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• . (Naut.) See Jack, n., 10.

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• noun a jay of northern North America with black-capped head and no crest; noted for boldness in thievery
  Perisoreus canadensis; Canada jay; grey jay; gray jay; camp robber.
  

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• noun caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito
  black vomit; yellow fever.
  
• noun yellow flag hoist on a ship in quarantine
  
• noun fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
  Caranx bartholomaei.
  

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• (Naut.), the yellow fever; also, the quarantine flag. See Yellow flag, under Flag.

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