blackjack

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.4 See also 1.5 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• black jack

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: blăk'jăk, IPA: /ˈblækdʒæk/, SAMPA: /"bl{kdZ{k/

[edit] Noun

blackjack (plural: blackjacks)

1. (card games): The most common gambling card game in casinos.
2. The flag (i.e., a jack) traditionally flown by pirate ships; popularly thought to be a white skull and crossed bones on a black field (the Jolly Roger). In older literature sometimes spelled "black jack".
3. a small truncheon, commonly made of a leather senneted tube, the slender handle being slightly flexible and the upper more bulbous end being loaded with lead or other heavy material.
4. a type of weed, Bidens pilosa, in the family Compositae.

[edit] See also

• baccarat
• bludgeon
• cosh
• pontoon
• truncheon
• twenty-one

[edit] Verb

to blackjack (third-person singular simple present blackjacks, present participle blackjacking, simple past and past participle blackjacked)

1. To strike with a blackjack or similar weapon.