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==English==
==English==
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[[Image:Jackscrew.gif|thumb|A scissor jack (mechanical device)]]


===Pronunciation===
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===Etymology 1===
===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|en|enm|jakke|t=a term of familiarity or contempt; guy; a mechanical turnspit; a brass coin}}, from the name {{m|enm|Jack}}. See {{l|en|Jack}}.
From {{der|en|xno|jacke}}, {{der|en|frm|jaque}}, {{m|fr|jacque}}, from {{m|frm|jacques||peasant}}, from the proper name {{m|fr|Jacques}}. Compare {{m|fr|jacquerie}}.


====Noun====
====Noun====
{{en-noun}}
{{en-noun}}


# A [[coarse]] [[mediaeval]] [[coat]] of [[defence]], especially one made of [[leather]]. {{defdate|from 14th c.}}
# A mechanical [[device]] used to [[raise]] and (temporarily) support a heavy object, e.g. screw jack, scissor jack, hydraulic jack, ratchet jack, scaffold jack.
#* {{rfdatek|en|Sir J. Harrington}}
#: ''She used a '''jack''' to lift her car and changed the tire.''
#*: Their horsemen are with '''jacks''' for most part clad.
# A [[man]] or [[men]] in general.
#: ''Every man '''jack''' of them refused to lift a finger to help.''
# A male animal.
# A male [[ass]].
# {{lb|en|card games}} A [[playing card]] with the letter "J" and the image of a [[knave]] or [[prince]] on it, the [[eleventh]] card in a given [[suit]]. Also called a {{m|en|knave}}.
# {{lb|en|cricket|by extension}} The [[eleventh]] batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
# {{lb|en|slang}} A [[detective]].
#* '''1935''', Bernard O'Donnell, ''The trials of Mr. Justice Avory'' (page 219)
#*: 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."
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2013|author=Nick Oldham|title=Big City Jacks| passage='I'd like you to meet DCI Henry Christie,' FB was saying. The older of the two '''jacks''' reached forward and gave Henry's right paw a quick tug.}}
# {{lb|en|archaic}} A [[knave]] (a [[servant]] or later, a [[deceitful]] [[man]]).
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1799|title=THE SCOTS MAGAZINE OR GENERAL REPOSITORY OF LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND POLITICS| page=171| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=h9cPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA171&dq=knave+jack| passage=''Fly'' may signify a winged insect, or part of a '''''Jack'''''. '''''Jack''''' itself is sometimes a roaster of meat, and at others a contraction of ''John'', a ''knave'', a ''Japan mug'', or an ''instrument to draw off boots''.}}
# {{lb|en|sports}} A target ball in [[bowls]], etc; a [[jack-ball]].
#* {{quote-book|en|1822|{{w|Walter Scott}}|Peveril of the Peak|https://www.worldcat.org/title/peveril-of-the-peak/oclc/226967834||like an uninstructed bowler, so to speak, who thinks to attain the '''jack''', by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it}}
# {{lb|en|games}} A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of [[jacks]].
# {{lb|en|colloquial|euphemistic}} Nothing, [[jack shit]].
#: ''You haven't done '''jack'''. Get up and get this room cleaned up right now!''
# {{lb|en|nautical}} A small [[flag]] at the [[bow]] of a [[ship]].
# {{lb|en|nautical}} A naval [[ensign]] flag flown from the main mast, mizzen mast, or the aft-most major mast of (especially) British sailing warships; [[Union Jack]].
# {{lb|en|military}} A [[coarse]] and cheap [[medieval]] coat of [[defense]], especially one made of [[leather]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1786| passage=The aketon, gambeson, vambasium, and '''jack''' were military vestments, calculated for the defence of the body, differing little from each other, except in their names, their materials and construction were nearly the same, the authorities quoted in the notes, shew they were all composed of many folds of linen, stuffed with cotton, wool or hair, quilted, and commonly covered with leather, made of buck or doe skin.| author=Francis Grose| title=A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons| page=15}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1786| passage=The aketon, gambeson, vambasium, and '''jack''' were military vestments, calculated for the defence of the body, differing little from each other, except in their names, their materials and construction were nearly the same, the authorities quoted in the notes, shew they were all composed of many folds of linen, stuffed with cotton, wool or hair, quilted, and commonly covered with leather, made of buck or doe skin.| author=Francis Grose| title=A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons| page=15}}

# A penny with a [[head]] on both sides, used for cheating.<ref>Sidney J. Baker, ''The Australian Language'', second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 3, page 243.</ref>
===Etymology 2===
# {{lb|en|slang}} [[money|Money]].
[[Image:Jackscrew.gif|thumb|A scissor jack (mechanical device)]]
#* '''1939''', {{w|Raymond Chandler}}, ''{{w|The Big Sleep}}'', Penguin 2011, page 133:
Transferative use of the personal name {{m|en|Jack}}.
#*: 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''' [...].

# {{lb|en|slang|Appalachians}} A smooth often [[ovoid]] large [[gravel]] or small [[cobble]] in a natural water course.
====Noun====
# {{taxlink|Mangifera caesia|species}}, related to the [[mango]] tree.
{{en-noun}}
# The freshwater [[pike]], {{vern|green pike}} or [[pickerel]].

# A large California [[rockfish]], the [[bocaccio]], {{taxlink|Sebastes paucispinis|species}}.
# ''A man.''
# Any of the marine fish in the family [[Carangidae]].
## {{lb|en|chiefly|capitalized}} A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man. {{defdate|from 14th c.}}
#: {{syn|en|jack mackerel}}
##*'''1723''', ''The New-England Courant'', vol. 80:
# A [[jackrabbit]]
##*: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'''''.
#*{{quote-journal|en|1932|Isabel T. Kelly|Ethnography of the Surprise Valley Paiute|University of California Publications in California Archaeology an Ethnography|volume=31|number=3|page=88|text=Cottontails were taken along the creeks, under the willows. Their flesh was preferable to that of the jacks{{...}}"}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete|nautical}} A [[sailor]], a [[jacktar]].
## {{lb|en|countable|now|chiefly|US}} A [[man]], a [[fellow]]; a typical [[man]]; [[men]] in general. {{defdate|from 16th c.}}
##*'''c. 1591''', {{w|William Shakespeare}}, ''The Taming of the Shrew'', First Folio 1623:
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} A [[pitcher]] or [[can]] of [[wax]]ed [[leather]], supposed to resemble a [[jackboot]]; a [[black-jack]].
##*:You have showed a tender fatherly regard / To wish me wed to one half-lunatic, / A madcap ruffian and a swearing '''Jack''' {{...}}.
#: {{rfquotek|en|John Dryden}}
## {{lb|en|colloquial}} A [[sailor]]. {{defdate|from 17th c.}}
#* '''1820-25''', {{w|Charles Lamb}}, in ''{{w|The Essays of Elia}}'' (1830)
## {{lb|en|slang}} A [[policeman]] or [[detective]]; {{i|Australia}} a [[military policeman]]. {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
#*: He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our ''crug'' — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern '''jack''' it was poured from.
##* '''1935''', Bernard O'Donnell, ''The trials of Mr. Justice Avory'' (page 219)
# {{lb|en|UK|dialect|obsolete}} A drinking measure holding half a [[pint]] or, sometimes, a [[quarter]] of a pint.
##*: 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."
#: {{rfquotek|en|Halliwell}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=2013|author=Nick Oldham|title=Big City Jacks| passage='I'd like you to meet DCI Henry Christie,' FB was saying. The older of the two '''jacks''' reached forward and gave Henry's right paw a quick tug.}}
# A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine.
## {{lb|en|now|rare}} A [[manual labourer]]. {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
## A device to pull off boots.
## {{lb|en|North America|colloquial}} A [[lumberjack]]. {{defdate|from 20th c.}}
## A sawhorse or sawbuck.
# ''A device or utensil.''
## A machine for turning a spit; a [[smokejack]].
## A device for turning a spit; a [[smokejack]] or [[roasting jack]]. {{defdate|from 14th c.}}
## {{lb|en|mining}} A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
##*'''1751''', {{w|Tobias Smollett}}, ''The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle'', vol. II, ch. 76:
## A [[lever]] for depressing the [[sinker]]s which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine.
##*: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 {{...}}.
## A grating to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck box.
## Each of a series of [[block]]s in a [[harpsichord]], communicating the action of the [[key]] to the [[quill]]; sometime also, a [[hopper]] in a modern piano. {{defdate|from 16th c.}}
## A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.
## {{lb|en|obsolete}} A support for wood being [[swan]]; a [[sawhorse]] or [[sawbuck]]. {{defdate|16th–19th c.}}
## A compact, portable machine for [[plane|planing]] metal.
## A device used to hold a [[boot]] by the [[heel]], to assist in removing the boot. {{defdate|from 17th c.}}
## A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.
## 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. {{defdate|from 17th c.}}
## A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed.
##: ''She used a '''jack''' to lift her car and changed the tire.''
## A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught.
## Any of various [[lever]]s for raising or lowering the [[sinker]]s which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame. {{defdate|from 18th c.}}
## In the [[harpsichord]], an intermediate piece communicating the action of the [[key]] to the [[quill]]; also called [[hopper]].
## {{lb|en|mining|now|rare}} A [[wedge]] for separating rocks rent by blasting. {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
## In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself.
## {{lb|en|obsolete}} A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a [[heck box]]. {{defdate|19th c.}}
##: {{rfquotek|en|Charles Hallock}}
## {{lb|en|obsolete}} A machine for twisting the [[sliver]] as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of [[yarn]]. {{defdate|19th–20th c.}}
## {{lb|en|nautical}} A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; also called [[jack crosstree]].
## {{lb|en|electronics}} A [[switch]] for a [[jack plug]], a [[jackknife switch]]; {{i|more generally}} a [[socket]] used to connect a device to a [[circuit]], [[network]] etc. {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
##: ''telephone '''jack'''''
# ''A non-tool object or thing.''
## {{lb|en|now|historical|regional}} A [[pitcher]] or other vessel for holding liquid, especially [[alcoholic]] drink; a [[black-jack]]. {{defdate|from 16th c.}}
##: {{rfquotek|en|John Dryden}}
##* '''1820-25''', {{w|Charles Lamb}}, in ''{{w|The Essays of Elia}}'' (1830)
##*: He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our ''crug'' — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern '''jack''' it was poured from.
## {{lb|en|card games}} The lowest [[court card]], ranking between the 10 and [[queen]], with an image of a [[knave]] or [[pageboy]] on it; a {{m|en|knave}}. {{defdate|from 17th c.}}
## {{lb|en|bowls}} A small, typically white, [[ball]] used as the target ball in [[bowls]]; a [[jack-ball]]. {{defdate|from 17th c.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|1822|{{w|Walter Scott}}|Peveril of the Peak|https://www.worldcat.org/title/peveril-of-the-peak/oclc/226967834||like an uninstructed bowler, so to speak, who thinks to attain the '''jack''', by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it}}
## {{lb|en|nautical}} A small ship's [[flag]] used as a [[signal]] or identifying device; a small flag flown at the [[bow]] of the vessel. {{defdate|from 17th c.}}
## {{lb|en|UK|regional|now|rare|historical}} A measure of [[liquid]] corresponding to a [[quarter]] of a pint. {{defdate|from 18th c.}}
##: {{rfquotek|en|Halliwell}}
## {{lb|en|obsolete|slang}} A fake [[coin]] designed to look like a [[sovereign]]. {{defdate|19th c.}}
## {{lb|en|nautical|now|rare|historical}} A [[jack crosstree]]. {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
##: {{rfquotek|en|R. H. Dana, Jr}}
##: {{rfquotek|en|R. H. Dana, Jr}}
## {{lb|en|games}} A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of [[jacks]]. {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
# A surface-mounted [[connector]] for [[electrical]], especially [[telecommunications]], equipment.
## {{lb|en|US}} A [[torch]] or other [[light]] used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night. {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
#: ''telephone '''jack'''''
##: {{rfquotek|en|Charles Hallock}}
# Female ended electrical connector (see [[:w:en:Electrical_connector|Electrical connector]])
## {{lb|en|slang|chiefly|US}} [[money|Money]]. {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
#: {{syn|en|socket}}
##*'''1939''', {{w|Raymond Chandler}}, ''{{w|The Big Sleep}}'', Penguin 2011, page 133:
# Electrical connector in a fixed position (see [[:w:en:Gender_of_connectors_and_fasteners|Gender of connectors and fasteners]])
##*: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''' {{...}}.
## {{lb|en|colloquial|euphemistic}} Nothing, [[jack shit]]. {{defdate|from 20th c.}}
##: ''You haven't done '''jack'''. Get up and get this room cleaned up right now!''
## {{lb|en|cricket|slang}} The [[eleventh]] batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
## {{lb|en|slang|Appalachians}} A smooth often [[ovoid]] large [[gravel]] or small [[cobble]] in a natural water course.
# ''A plant or animal.''
## A [[pike]], especially when young. {{defdate|from 16th c.}}
## {{lb|en|chiefly|US}} A male [[ass]], especially when kept for breeding. {{defdate|from 17th c.}}
## Any of the marine fish in the family [[Carangidae]]. {{defdate|from 17th c.}}
##: {{syn|en|jack mackerel}}
## {{lb|en|US}} A [[jackrabbit]]. {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
##*{{quote-journal|en|1932|Isabel T. Kelly|Ethnography of the Surprise Valley Paiute|University of California Publications in California Archaeology an Ethnography|volume=31|number=3|page=88|text=Cottontails were taken along the creeks, under the willows. Their flesh was preferable to that of the jacks{{...}}"}}
## A large California [[rockfish]], the [[bocaccio]], {{taxlink|Sebastes paucispinis|species}}.
## {{taxlink|Mangifera caesia|species}}, related to the [[mango]] tree.


=====Synonyms=====
=====Synonyms=====
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#*:In the end, black and white were both crawling on the ground in reconciliation. Both saying that they were plain '''jack''' of each other.
#*:In the end, black and white were both crawling on the ground in reconciliation. Both saying that they were plain '''jack''' of each other.


===Etymology 2===
===Etymology 3===
From {{der|en|pt|jaca||jackfruit}}, from {{der|en|ml|ചക്ക}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# The edible fruit of the Asian [[tree]] ({{taxlink|Artocarpus heterophyllus|species|ver=191211}}); also the tree itself. {{defdate|from 16th c.}}

===Etymology 4===
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===Etymology 3===
{{etyl|fr|en}} {{m|fr|jaque}}, {{m|fr|jacque}}, perhaps from the proper name {{m|fr|Jacques}}. Compare {{m|fr|jacquerie}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# A [[coarse]] [[mediaeval]] [[coat]] of [[defence]], especially one made of [[leather]].
#* {{rfdatek|en|Sir J. Harrington}}
#*: Their horsemen are with '''jacks''' for most part clad.

===Etymology 4===
From {{der|en|pt|jaca||jackfruit}}, from {{der|en|ml|ചക്ക}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# A [[jackfruit]] [[tree]] ({{taxlink|Artocarpus heterophyllus|species|ver=191211}}).


===References===
===References===

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See also: Jack

English

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Pronunciation

  • enPR: jăk, IPA(key): /dʒæk/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman jacke, Middle French jaque, jacque, from jacques (“peasant”), from the proper name Jacques. Compare jacquerie.

Noun

jack (plural jacks)

  1. A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather. [from 14th c.]
    • (Can we date this quote by Sir J. Harrington and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad.
    • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 15:
      The aketon, gambeson, vambasium, and jack were military vestments, calculated for the defence of the body, differing little from each other, except in their names, their materials and construction were nearly the same, the authorities quoted in the notes, shew they were all composed of many folds of linen, stuffed with cotton, wool or hair, quilted, and commonly covered with leather, made of buck or doe skin.

Etymology 2

A scissor jack (mechanical device)

Transferative use of the personal name Jack.

Noun

jack (plural jacks)

  1. A man.
    1. (chiefly capitalized) A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man. [from 14th c.]
      • 1723, The New-England Courant, vol. 80:
        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. (countable, now chiefly US) A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general. [from 16th c.]
      • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, First Folio 1623:
        You have showed a tender fatherly regard / To wish me wed to one half-lunatic, / A madcap ruffian and a swearing Jack […] .
    3. (colloquial) A sailor. [from 17th c.]
    4. (slang) A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman. [from 19th c.]
      • 1935, Bernard O'Donnell, The trials of Mr. Justice Avory (page 219)
        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."
      • 2013, Nick Oldham, Big City Jacks:
        'I'd like you to meet DCI Henry Christie,' FB was saying. The older of the two jacks reached forward and gave Henry's right paw a quick tug.
    5. (now rare) A manual labourer. [from 19th c.]
    6. (Canada, US, colloquial) A lumberjack. [from 20th c.]
  2. A device or utensil.
    1. A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack. [from 14th c.]
      • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 76:
        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 […] .
    2. Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano. [from 16th c.]
    3. (obsolete) A support for wood being swan; a sawhorse or sawbuck. [16th–19th c.]
    4. A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot. [from 17th c.]
    5. 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. [from 17th c.]
      She used a jack to lift her car and changed the tire.
    6. 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. [from 18th c.]
    7. (mining, now rare) A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting. [from 19th c.]
    8. (obsolete) A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck box. [19th c.]
    9. (obsolete) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn. [19th–20th c.]
    10. (electronics) A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc. [from 19th c.]
      telephone jack
  3. A non-tool object or thing.
    1. (now historical, regional) A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack. [from 16th c.]
      (Can we find and add a quotation of John Dryden to this entry?)
      • 1820-25, Charles Lamb, in The Essays of Elia (1830)
        He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
    2. (card games) The lowest court card, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it; a knave. [from 17th c.]
    3. (bowls) A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball. [from 17th c.]
      • 1822, Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak‎[1]:
        like an uninstructed bowler, so to speak, who thinks to attain the jack, by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it
    4. (nautical) A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel. [from 17th c.]
    5. (UK, regional, now rare, historical) A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint. [from 18th c.]
      (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
    6. (obsolete, slang) A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign. [19th c.]
    7. (nautical, now rare, historical) A jack crosstree. [from 19th c.]
      (Can we find and add a quotation of R. H. Dana, Jr to this entry?)
    8. (games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks. [from 19th c.]
    9. (US) A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night. [from 19th c.]
      (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Hallock to this entry?)
    10. (slang, chiefly US) Money. [from 19th c.]
      • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 133:
        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 […] .
    11. (colloquial, euphemistic) Nothing, jack shit. [from 20th c.]
      You haven't done jack. Get up and get this room cleaned up right now!
    12. (cricket, slang) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
    13. (slang, Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
  4. A plant or animal.
    1. A pike, especially when young. [from 16th c.]
    2. (chiefly US) A male ass, especially when kept for breeding. [from 17th c.]
    3. Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae. [from 17th c.]
      Synonym: jack mackerel
    4. (US) A jackrabbit. [from 19th c.]
      • 1932, Isabel T. Kelly, “Ethnography of the Surprise Valley Paiute”, in University of California Publications in California Archaeology an Ethnography, volume 31, number 3, page 88:
        Cottontails were taken along the creeks, under the willows. Their flesh was preferable to that of the jacks […] "
    5. A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
    6. Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
Synonyms
Antonyms
  • (female ended electrical connector): plug
Derived terms
Translations
knave — see knave
slang: nothing — see jackshit

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freshwater pike — see pike
large California rockfish — see rockfish
nautical: sailor — see jacktar
See also
Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace deuce, two three four five six seven
eight nine ten jack, knave queen king joker

Verb

jack (third-person singular simple present jacks, present participle jacking, simple past and past participle jacked)

  1. (transitive) To raise using a jack.
    He jacked the car up 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 produce by freeze distillation; to distil (an alcoholic beverage) by freezing it and removing the ice (which is water), leaving the alcohol (which remains liquid).
    • 1941, Esquire, volume 15, issues 1-3, page 176:
      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 […]
    • 2010, Scott Mansfield, Strong Waters: A Simple Guide to Making Beer, Wine, Cider ... →ISBN
      The potency of a jacked beverage depends on the temperature applied to the original beverage; the colder the liquor, the more water can be frozen out […] . In New England, where this technique was historically used, people could get applejack to around 30 percent alcohol […] .
  4. (transitive, colloquial) To steal something, typically an automobile. Shortened form of carjacking.
    Someone jacked my car last night!
  5. (intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
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Adjective

jack (comparative more jack, superlative most jack)

  1. (Australia) Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with). [from 19th c.]
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 78:
      In the end, black and white were both crawling on the ground in reconciliation. Both saying that they were plain jack of each other.

Etymology 3

From Portuguese jaca (“jackfruit”), from Malayalam ചക്ക (cakka).

Noun

jack (plural jacks)

  1. The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.); also the tree itself. [from 16th c.]

Etymology 4

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Noun

jack (plural jacks)

  1. (slang, baseball) A home run.
    • 2001 October 8, Ray Dames, “Re: McGwire's Year”, in rec.sport.baseball‎[2] (Usenet):
      The year before ('76) Kingman had 37 jacks with only 502 PAs. Is that the limit?
    • 2002 April 18, Perry, “Re: To all you Oakland A's fans...”, in rec.sport.baseball‎[3] (Usenet):
      Me three. I never have quite understood all the "three true outcomes" fetish around here. I mean, I know that building an offense around walks and 3-run jacks embodies the Sabermetric Virtues, and especially in today's conditions that's the way to win, but man, it sure leads to some slow, boring games.
    • 2004 January 18, Terrell Miller, “Re: Does playing for the 3-run home run really help you win championships?”, in rec.sport.baseball‎[4] (Usenet):
      3-run jacks are just another tool in a team's chest. The goal is to make the playoffs, then win at least one more game than your opponent each round. And repeat next year, and the year after that, and...

Verb

jack (third-person singular simple present jacks, present participle jacking, simple past and past participle jacked)

  1. (transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
    • 1986, in Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature, Volume 4,[5] Sport Literature Association:
      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.
    • 2004, Wayne Stewart, Hitting Secrets of the Pros: Big League Sluggers Reveal the Tricks of Their Trade, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 90:
      Therefore, even though Vizquel is certainly not a power hitter, at times he will try to jack the ball, perhaps pulling it with just enough oomph to carry down the line for a homer.
    • a. 2009 Jim McManus, quoted in T.J. Lewis, A View from the Mound: My Father’s Life in Baseball, Lulu.com (publisher, 2008), →ISBN, page 107:
      Maybe he hung a curve ball to somebody and they jacked it out of the park on him and he wasn’t upset about it.
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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English jack.

Pronunciation

Noun

jack n (plural jacks, diminutive jackje n)

  1. jacket

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English jack.

Noun

jack m (plural s)

  1. jack (an electronic connector mounted on a surface)
  2. (Brazil, slang) A rapist (specifically a male one)
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