jesse : Idioms & Phrases
jesse jackson
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noun United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)
Jackson; Jesse Jackson.
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jesse james
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noun United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)
James.
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jesse louis jackson
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noun United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)
Jackson; Jesse Jackson.
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jesse owens
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noun United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)
James Cleveland Owens; Owens.
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Jesse window
(Arch.) , a window of which the glazing and tracery represent the tree of Jesse.