Jack

noun jacks

1. A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather. jack of plate

noun jacks

1. capitalized A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man. After Dinner they frisk away to some known Place of Rendezvous, where (at Night) every Jack has his Jill and every Jill has her Jack.
2. US, countable A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general. Call you me daughter? now I promiſe you / You haue ſhewd a tender fatherly regard, / To wiſh me wed to one halfe Lunaticke, / A mad-cap ruffian, and a ſwearing Iacke, / That thinkes with oathes to face the matter out.
3. colloquial A sailor.
4. slang A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman. When Wardell arrived on the scene, they were surprised to find that he was unshaven, and did not look too happy. One of them remarked: "The 'Jacks' (detectives) are after you."
5. archaic A manual laborer.
6. Canada, US, colloquial A lumberjack.
7. India, historical, slang A sepoy. I hope to God his theories will not unman him in action, that he will not be musing and refining when he should be leading the Jacks […]
8. A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack. Our hero, among his other remarks, had obſerved, that in this place there was no ſuch utenſil as a jack, and that all the ſpits were turned by dogs, […]
9. Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano. Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap / To kiss the tender inward of thy hand, / Whilst my poor lips, which should that harvest reap, / At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand!
10. a tool used in manual production of glass objects (like bottles or wine glasses).
11. obsolete A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck.
12. A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
13. A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre. She used a jack to lift her car and changed the tire.
14. Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
15. archaic A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
16. obsolete A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck-box.
17. obsolete A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.
18. A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc. telephone jack
19. historical, regional A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack. Dead VVine that ſtinks of the Borrachio, ſup / From a fovvl Jack, or greaſie Maple Cup?
20. The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
21. obsolete A counter used to represent money in a gambling establishment.
22. A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball. like an uninstructed bowler, so to speak, who thinks to attain the jack, by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it
23. A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
24. UK, archaic, historical, regional A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint. To a pound of sugar put a jack of water.
25. obsolete, slang A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign.
26. archaic, historical A jackcrosstree.
27. A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
28. US A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night. a heron when seeing a deer attracted by the jack
29. US, slang Money, cash. First off Regan carried fifteen grand, packed it in his clothes all the time. Real money, they tell me. Not just a top card and a bunch of hay. That's a lot of jack (or jack-shit) […].
30. Canada, US A strong alcoholic liquor, especially home-distilled or illicit. [A] quart of raisin jack was divided between us with the result that tha day proper (after the night before) was spent very quietly, watered and Bromo-Seltzered, with amusing anecdotes occasionally sprouting from towelled head to towelled head.
31. euphemistic, slang Nothing, not anything, jack shit. You haven't done jack. Get up and get this room cleaned up right now!
32. slang The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
33. slang A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
34. A pike, especially when young.
35. US A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
36. Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
37. US A jackrabbit. Cottontails were taken along the creeks, under the willows. Their flesh was preferable to that of the jacks[…]"
38. A bocaccio (Sebastes paucispinis), a large California rockfish.
39. white mango (Mangifera caesia). (See .)
40. colloquial A Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema), often capitalized Jack. Usually a jack that makes male flowers has only one main leaf (right), while female plants have two. […] The specific taxonomy of Jack-in-the Pulpit, a member of the Arum Family (Araceae), is rather up in the air. Some botanists believe all jacks are just one species, Arisaema triphyllum, while othe
41. colloquial Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack). Lifting the flap at the top of the spathe reveals our slender and round-headed friend "Jack," known better to botanists as the spadix.
42. Any member of species of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.

verb jacks · jacking · jacked

1. transitive To physically raise using a jack. He jacked the car so that he could replace the brake pads.
2. transitive To raise or increase. If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results.
3. To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion. Fruit of the orchard has been "jacked" these many generations, with Plymouth Rockers putting the hard cider barrel down into the ground to freeze, and […]
4. colloquial, transitive To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone). Someone jacked my car last night!
5. intransitive To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
6. colloquial, vulgar To jack off, to masturbate. I don't even care about mine, I can get my shit off while jacking in the shower.
7. To fight.
8. informal, intransitive, transitive To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).

adjective more jack · most jack

1. Australia Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with). In the end, black and white were both crawling on the ground in reconciliation. Both saying that they were plain jack of each other.

noun jacks · jak

1. A jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus, syn. Artocarpus integrifolia). A mock living burial of the principal performer, who is placed in a pit, which is covered with planks, on the top of which a sacrifice is performed, with a fire kindled with jack wood (Artocarpus integrifolia) and a plant called erinna.

noun jacks

1. White mango (Mangifera caesia) of fruit-bearing plants.

noun jacks

1. slang A home run. The year before ('76) Kingman had 37 jacks with only 502 PAs. Is that the limit?

verb jacks · jacking · jacked

1. slang, transitive To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run. An excellent piece of work, Wayne thought, so good in fact, he wasn’t surprised when Bailey walked to the plate and on the first pitch jacked the ball far into the parking lot outside the left-field fence for a tournament winning homerun.

proper noun Jacks

1. countable, uncountable A unisex given name derived from a pet form of the name John. Occasionally a diminutive of other given names such as Jackson, Jacob, Jacqueline or Jonathan. Since every Jack became a gentleman there's many a gentle person made a Jack.
2. countable, uncountable A surname.
3. colloquial, countable, uncountable Jack Daniel's, a brand of Tennessee whiskey. Before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack.
4. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Coffee County, Alabama, United States.
5. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Dent County, Missouri, United States.
6. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of Monterey Jack, a type of cheese.Monterey Jack

noun Jacks

1. informal A placeholder or conventional name for any man, particularly a younger, lower-class man. Well, if you ever plan to motor west / Jack, take my way, it's the highway that's the best / Get your kicks on Route 66
2. abbreviation, archaic, ellipsis, informal Ellipsis of Jack Tar, a sailor.Jack Tar When he went home on leave he rioted on a large scale—pompously. Jack ashore—with a difference—in externals only.
3. abbreviation, archaic, ellipsis, informal Ellipsis of Jack Rum, a soldier.Jack Rum
4. A jacqueminot rose.

Similar: John, Jacques, Jacob, James