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jack
(jăk)n.
1. often Jack Informal A man; a fellow.
2.
a. One who does odd or heavy jobs; a laborer.
b. One who works in a specified manual trade. Often used in combination: a lumberjack; a steeplejack.
c. Jack A sailor; a tar.
3. Abbr. J Games A playing card showing the figure of a servant or soldier and ranking below a queen. Also called knave.
4. Games
a. jacks(used with a sing. or pl. verb) A game played with a set of small, six-pointed, traditionally metal pieces and a small ball, the object being to pick up the pieces in various combinations.
b. One of the six-pointed pieces so used.
5. Sports A pin used in some games of bowling.
6.
a. A usually portable device for raising heavy objects by means of force applied with a lever, screw, or hydraulic press.
b. A wooden wedge for cleaving rock.
7. A device used for turning a spit.
8. Nautical
a. A support or brace, especially the iron crosstree on a topgallant masthead.
b. A small flag flown at the bow of a ship, usually to indicate nationality.
9. The male of certain animals, especially the ass.
10. Any of various food and game fishes of the family Carangidae, found in tropical and temperate seas.
11. A jackrabbit.
12. A socket that accepts a plug at one end and attaches to electric circuitry at the other.
13. Slang Money.
14. Applejack.
15. Slang A small or worthless amount: You don't know jack about that.
v. jacked, jack·ing, jacks
v.tr.
1. To hunt or fish for with a jacklight: hunters illegally jacking deer.
2.
a. To move or hoist by using a jack. Often used with up: jacked the rear of the car to replace the tire.
b. To raise (something) to a higher level, as in cost. Often used with up: "Foreign producers jacked up the price on some steels by over 100%" (Forbes).
3. Baseball To hit (a pitched ball) hard, especially for a home run.
4. Slang
a. To steal: Someone jacked my bike.
b. To rob or cheat: The dealer jacked me on the price.
v.intr.
Phrasal Verbs: 1. To hunt or fish by using a jacklight.
2. To plug into an electronic device by means of a jack.
jack around
1. To spend time idly.
2. To toy, tinker, or mess: He's been jacking around with that motor for days.
3. To take unfair advantage of, deceive, or manipulate.
jack off Vulgar Slang
1. To masturbate. Usually used of a man.
2. To bring (someone) to orgasm.
jack up
To excite emotionally.
[From the name Jack, from Middle English Jakke, possibly from Old French Jacques, from Late Latin Iacōbus; see Jacob. N., sense 15, short for jack shit. V. tr., senses 4a and b, short for hijack.]
jack′er n.
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jack
(dʒæk)n
1. a man or fellow
2. (Nautical Terms) a sailor
3. (Animals) the male of certain animals, esp of the ass or donkey
4. (Mechanical Engineering) a mechanical or hydraulic device for exerting a large force, esp to raise a heavy weight such as a motor vehicle
5. (Cookery) any of several mechanical devices that replace manpower, such as a contrivance for rotating meat on a spit
6. (Card Games) one of four playing cards in a pack, one for each suit, bearing the picture of a young prince; knave
7. (Bowls & Bowling) bowls a small usually white bowl at which the players aim with their own bowls
8. (Electrical Engineering) electrical engineering a female socket with two or more terminals designed to receive a male plug (jack plug) that either makes or breaks the circuit or circuits
9. (Nautical Terms) a flag, esp a small flag flown at the bow of a ship indicating the ship's nationality. Compare Union Jack
10. (Nautical Terms) nautical either of a pair of crosstrees at the head of a topgallant mast used as standoffs for the royal shrouds
11. (Instruments) a part of the action of a harpsichord, consisting of a fork-shaped device on the end of a pivoted lever on which a plectrum is mounted
12. (Animals) any of various tropical and subtropical carangid fishes, esp those of the genus Caranx, such as C. hippos (crevalle jack)
13. (Games, other than specified) Also called: jackstone one of the pieces used in the game of jacks
15. US a slang word for money
16. every man jack everyone without exception
17. (Pathology) the jack slang Austral venereal disease
adj
jack of slang Austral tired or fed up with (something)
vb (tr)
18. (Mechanical Engineering) to lift or push (an object) with a jack
19. (Electrical Engineering) electrical engineering to connect (an electronic device) with another by means of a jack and a jack plug
20. (Hunting) Also: jacklight US and Canadian to hunt (fish or game) by seeking them out or dazzling them with a flashlight
[C16 jakke, variant of Jankin, diminutive of John]
jack
(dʒæk) orjak
n
(Plants) short for jackfruit
[C17: from Portuguese jaca; see jackfruit]
jack
(dʒæk)n
1. (Arms & Armour (excluding Firearms)) a short sleeveless coat of armour of the Middle Ages, consisting usually of a canvas base with metal plates
2. (Brewing) archaic a drinking vessel, often of leather
[C14: from Old French jaque, of uncertain origin]
Jack
(dʒæk)n
I'm all right, Jack informal
a. a remark indicating smug and complacent selfishness
b. (as modifier): an 'I'm all right, Jack' attitude.
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jack
(dʒæk)n.
1. any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods: an automobile jack.
2. Also called knave. a playing card bearing the picture of a soldier or servant.
3. a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug: a telephone jack.
4. (cap.) Informal. fellow; buddy; man (usu. used in addressing a stranger).
5.
a. one of a set of small, six-pointed metal objects or pebbles used in the game of jacks.
b. jacks, (used with a sing. v.) a children's game in which these objects are tossed and gathered, usu. while bouncing a rubber ball.
6. any of several carangid fishes, esp. of the genus Caranx.
7. Slang. money.
8. a small flag flown at the bow of a vessel, usu. symbolizing its nationality.
9. (cap.) a sailor.
10. lumberjack.
12. jacklight.
13. Slang. anything at all; the least thing (usu. used in the negative): You don't know jack.
14. a device for turning a spit.
15. a small, usu. white bowl or ball used as a mark for lawn bowlers to aim at.
16. a young male salmon before its migration.
17. Falconry. the male of a kestrel, hobby, or esp. of a merlin.
v.t. 18. to lift or move (something) with or as if with a jack (usu. fol. by up): to jack up a car.
19. to increase, raise, or accelerate (prices, wages, speed, etc.) (usu. fol. by up): to jack up rents.
20. to boost the morale of; encourage (usu. fol. by up).
21. to hunt or fish for with a jacklight.
v.i. 22. to hunt or fish with a jacklight.
23. jack off, Vulgar Slang. to masturbate.
adj. 24. Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure: jack rafter; jack truss.
[1350–1400; Middle English Jakke used in addressing any male, especially a social inferior, variant of Jakken, variant of Jankin,=Jan John + -kin -kin]
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jack
Past participle: jacked
Gerund: jacking
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Jack
1. A small six-pronged object used in the game of jacks, a game widely played by girls in the 1930s. In the early part of the twentieth century such jacks were generally of metal but, by the twenty-first century, were usually plastic.
2. A male donkey. The first jack in the U.S. was sent to George Washington by King Charles III of Spain.
3. An instrument for raising a heavy weight a short distance.
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| Noun | 1. | jack - a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude |
| 2. |  Jack - a man who serves as a sailor able seaman, able-bodied seaman - a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills boatswain, bo's'n, bos'n, bosun, bo'sun - a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen deckhand, roustabout - a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor ship's officer, officer - a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel; "he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines" pilot - a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor sea lawyer - an argumentative and contentious seaman whaler - a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales | |
| 3. |  jack - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual laboragricultural laborer, agricultural labourer - a person who tills the soil for a living bracero - a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II cleaner - someone whose occupation is cleaning day laborer, day labourer - a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages digger - a laborer who digs dishwasher - someone who washes dishes gandy dancer - a laborer in a railroad maintenance gang gravedigger - a person who earns a living by digging graves hewer - a person who hews hired hand, hired man, hand - a hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand" hod carrier, hodman - a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers gipsy, itinerant - a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment; "itinerant traders" miner, mineworker - laborer who works in a mine platelayer, tracklayer - a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks porter - a person employed to carry luggage and supplies rail-splitter, splitter - a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences sawyer - one who is employed to saw wood section hand - a laborer assigned to a section gang sprayer - a worker who applies spray to a surface stacker - a laborer who builds up a stack or pile steeplejack - someone who builds or maintains very tall structures dock worker, docker, dockhand, dock-walloper, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore - a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port woodcutter - cuts down trees and chops wood as a job working man, working person, workingman, workman - an employee who performs manual or industrial labor wrecker - someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job yardman - a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns) | |
| 4. | jack - immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh Artocarpus heterophyllus, jackfruit, jackfruit tree - East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds | |
| 5. | jack - a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling bowls, lawn bowling - a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack ball - round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games; "the ball travelled 90 mph on his serve"; "the mayor threw out the first ball"; "the ball rolled into the corner pocket" | |
| 6. | jack - an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug electrical device - a device that produces or is powered by electricity phone jack, telephone jack - a jack for plugging in a telephone | |
| 7. | jack - game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks game equipment - equipment or apparatus used in playing a game | |
| 8. | jack - small flag indicating a ship's nationality flag - emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design | |
| 9. |  jack - one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince | |
| 10. | jack - tool for exerting pressure or lifting bumper jack - a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper jackscrew, screw jack - screw-operated jack tool - an implement used in the practice of a vocation | |
| 11. | jack - any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas Carangidae, family Carangidae - large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas carangid, carangid fish - a percoid fish of the family Carangidae Caranx bartholomaei, yellow jack - fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Elagatis bipinnulata, rainbow runner - streamlined cigar-shaped jack; good game fish leatherjack, leatherjacket - any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales Alectis ciliaris, threadfish, thread-fish - fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins Seriola dorsalis, yellowtail - game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin banded rudderfish, Seriola zonata, rudderfish - fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters Seriola grandis, kingfish - large game fish of Australia and New Zealand | |
| 12. | jack - male donkey | |
| Verb | 1. | jack - lift with a special device; "jack up the car so you can change the tire" |
| 2. | jack - hunt with a jacklight hunt, hunt down, track down, run - pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" |
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jack
noun1. A person engaged in sailing or working on a ship.Also used with uppercase:
Slang: gob.
2. Fabric used especially as a symbol:
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Translations
الوَلَد أو الشّاب في وَرَق اللعبرَافِعَةٌرافِعَة سَيّارَه
HonzaHonzíkkošonekprasátkospodek
donkraftknægtstik
azenojako
jätkänosturisolttusotilastunkki
dizalica
bubikocsiemelõ
dongkrak
gositjakkur
ジャッキジャック
잭
domkrataspakelti domkratuvaletas
domkratskalps
JacóJoãomacaco de carrovalete
JankoJano
dvigalkafantJaniJanko
domkraftknekt
แม่แรง
cái kích
Jack
[dʒæk]B. CPD Jack Frost N personificación del hielo
Jack Ketch N el verdugo
Jack Robinson N before you can say Jack Robinson → en un santiamén, en un decir Jesús
Jack Tar N el marinero
Jack Ketch N el verdugo
Jack Robinson N before you can say Jack Robinson → en un santiamén, en un decir Jesús
Jack Tar N el marinero
jack
[dʒæk]A. N
3. (Bowls) → boliche m
5. (also bootjack) → sacabotas m inv
6. (Naut) → marinero m
8. jacks (= game) → cantillos mpl
B. CPD jack plane N → garlopa f
jack plug N → enchufe m de clavija
jack rabbit N (US) → liebre f americana
jack plug N → enchufe m de clavija
jack rabbit N (US) → liebre f americana
jack up VT + ADV
2. (= increase) [+ price, production] → aumentar
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
Jack
n dim of John → Hans m; I’m all right Jack → das kann mich überhaupt nicht jucken (inf); his attitude of I’m all right Jack → seine Einstellung „das kann mich überhaupt nicht jucken“
jack
n
→ Hebevorrichtung f; (Aut) → Wagenheber m
(Cards) → Bube m
(Bowling) → Zielkugel f
(= bootjack) → Stiefelknecht m
(inf) every man jack (of them) → alle ohne Ausnahme, (alle) geschlossen; every man jack of them voted against it → sie stimmten alle geschlossen or ohne Ausnahme dagegen
jack
:Jack Frost
jackhammer
n (US) → Presslufthammer m
jack-in-office
n → Beamtenseele f
jack-in-the-box
n → Schachtel- or Kastenteufel m; he was up and down like a jack → er sprang immer wieder auf, der reinste Hampelmann
jack
:jack of all trades
n → Alleskönner m; to be (a) jack (and master of none) (prov) → ein Hansdampf m → in allen Gassen sein
jack-o’-lantern
n → Kürbislaterne f; (= will-o’-the-wisp) → Irrlicht nt
jack plane
n (Tech) → Schropp- or Doppelhobel m
jack plug
n → Bananenstecker m; (for telephone) → Klinkenstecker m
jack
:jack rabbit
n → Eselhase m
Jack Robinson
n before you could say jack (inf) → im Nu, im Handumdrehen
Jack Russell
n → Jack Russell m
jack
:Jack Tar
n (Naut inf) → Seebär m (inf)
Jack-the-lad
n (Brit inf) → Großmaul nt (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
jack
[dʒæk] n (Tech, Aut) → cric m inv (Cards) → fante m (Bowls) → boccino, pallinobefore you could say Jack Robinson (fam) → in men che non si dica
every man jack of them (fam) → ognuno di loro
jack up vt + adv
a. (Tech, Aut) → sollevare con il cric
b. (fam) (raise, prices, wages) → alzare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
jack
(dʒӕk) noun1. an instrument for lifting up a motor car or other heavy weight. You should always keep a jack in the car in case you need to change a wheel.
2. the playing-card between the ten and queen, sometimes called the knave. The jack, queen and king are the three face cards.
jack up to raise (a motor car etc) and keep it supported, with a jack. You need to jack up the car before you try to remove the wheel.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
jack
→ رَافِعَةٌ zvedák donkraft Wagenheber γρύλος gato väkivipu cric dizalica cric ジャッキ 잭 krik jekk lewarek macaco de carro домкрат domkraft แม่แรง kriko cái kích 千斤顶Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009