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   Jack

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   noun

   • 1. a device for lifting heavy objects, especially one for raising the axle of a motor vehicle off the ground so that a wheel can be changed or the underside inspected.
   • 2. a playing card bearing a representation of a soldier, page, or knave, normally ranking next below a queen.
   • 3. a socket designed to receive a jack plug.
   • 4. a plug used in a jack socket, consisting of a shaft used to make a connection that transmits a signal, typically used in sound equipment.
   • 5. in lawn bowling, the small ball at which the players aim.
   • 6. a game played by tossing and catching small round pebbles or star-shaped pieces of metal or plastic.
   • ▪ a small round pebble or star-shaped piece of metal used in the game of jacks.
   • ▪ used as a form of address to a man whose name is not known. informal US
   • ▪ a lumberjack. informal North American
   • ▪ a steeplejack. archaic
   • ▪ the figure of a man striking the bell on a clock.
   • 7. a small version of a national flag flown at the bow of a vessel in harbor to indicate its nationality.
   • 8. money. informal, dated North American
   • 9. a device for turning a spit.
   • 10. a part of the mechanism in a spinet or harpsichord that connects a key to its corresponding string and causes the string to be plucked when the key is pressed down.
   • 11. a marine fish that is typically laterally compressed with a row of large spiky scales along each side. Jacks are important in many places as food or game fish.
   • 12. the male of some animals, especially a merlin or an ass.
   • 13. used in names of animals that are smaller than similar kinds, e.g., jacksnipe.
   • 14. short for jack shit informal US
   • 15. short for jackrabbit

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Jack, pet form of the given name John. The term was used originally to denote an ordinary man (jack1 (sense 7)), also a youth (mid 16th century), hence the ‘knave’ in cards and ‘male animal’. The word also denoted various devices saving human labor, as though one had a helper (jack1 (sense 1, sense 3, sense 10, sense 11), and in compounds such as jackhammer and jackknife); the general sense ‘laborer’ arose in the early 18th century and survives in cheapjack, lumberjack, steeplejack, etc. Since the mid 16th century a notion of ‘smallness’ has arisen, hence jack1 (sense 5, sense 6, sense 8, sense 14).

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   What is a jack used for?

   • John. Any of various machines used to lift, hoist, or move something heavy a short distance. Hydraulic jack, automobile jack. A device used for turning a spit. A wooden bar attached to each key of a harpsichord, etc. that raises the plectrum when the key is depressed. A male donkey; jackass. To hunt or fish for with a light.

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   What does 'the jack' mean in the song?

   • In the song 'The Jack' released in 1976, 'the jack' is referred to as venereal disease, which is a slang term in Australia. Despite the song containing numerous gambling terms, its core meaning revolves around a man lamenting that after sleeping with 'his queen', he's now contracted 'the jack'.

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   What does Jack mean in football?

   • : a playing card carrying the figure of a soldier or servant and ranking usually below the queen … every man jack in the team will want to impress their new manager. Malcolm Macdonald Those two sessions were both open to the public, which meant that any man Jack from the street could have walked in to watch … Neil Ashton

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   What is a Jack game?

   • one of any other set of objects, as pebbles, stones, etc., used in the game of jacks. jacks,(used with a singular verb) a children's game in which small metal objects, stones, pebbles, or the like, are tossed, caught, and moved on the ground in a number of prescribed ways, usually while bouncing a rubber ball.

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   Jack definition: any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.. See examples of JACK used in a sentence.

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   A jack is a female socket with two or more terminals designed to receive a male plug that either makes or breaks the circuit.

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