blackjack
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blackjack (plural blackjacks)
- (card games) The most common gambling card game in casinos.
- 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".
- 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.
- a type of weed, Bidens pilosa, in the family Compositae.
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Gambling card game
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Flag traditionally flown by pirate ships
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blackjack (third-person singular simple present blackjacks, present participle blackjacking, simple past and past participle blackjacked)
- To strike with a blackjack or similar weapon.