- any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- a playing card bearing the picture of a soldier or servant.
- a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug.
- fellow; buddy; man (usually used in addressing a stranger): Hey, Jack, which way to Jersey?
- Also called jackstone. Games.
- one of a set of small metal objects having six prongs, used in the game of jacks.
- one of any other set of objects, as pebbles, stones, etc., used in the game of jacks.
- 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.
- any of several carangid fishes, especially of the genus Caranx, as C. hippos(crevalle jack, or jack crevalle ), of the western Atlantic Ocean.
- money: He won a lot of jack at the races.
- jack shit.
- Nautical.
- a small flag flown at the jack staff of a ship, bearing a distinctive design usually symbolizing the nationality of the vessel.
- either of a pair of crosstrees at the head of a topgallant mast, used to hold royal shrouds away from the mast.
- a sailor.
- lumberjack (def. 1).
- applejack.
- jack rabbit.
- jackass (def. 1).
- jacklight.
- a device for turning a spit.
- a small wooden rod in the mechanism of a harpsichord, spinet, or virginal that rises when the key is depressed and causes the attached plectrum to strike the string.
- a small, usually white bowl or ball used as a mark for the bowlers to aim at.
- a mechanical figure that strikes a clock bell.
- a premigratory young male salmon.
- brace jack.
- the male of a kestrel, hobby, or especially of a merlin.
- to lift or move (something) with or as if with a jack (usually followed by up): to jack a car up to change a flat tire.
- to increase, raise, or accelerate (prices, wages, speed, etc.) (usually followed by up).
- to boost the morale of; encourage (usually followed by up).
- to mess up, ruin, or injure (usually followed by up): The paint job was all jacked up.I jacked my shoulder when I fell.
- to jacklight.
- to jacklight.
- having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple: jack rafter; jack truss.
- to masturbate.
- to give oneself an injection of a controlled substance: After 30 heroin-free days, he was let out for the afternoon and came straight to my door, begging to jack up.
- everyone without exception: They presented a formidable opposition, every man jack of them.
- to steal: Some neighborhood kids jacked her car and took it for a joyride.Hackers jacked my email account in a phishing scam.
- to rob: He got jacked on his way home from the club.
- a defensive coat, usually of leather, worn in medieval times by foot soldiers and others.
- a container for liquor, originally of waxed leather coated with tar.
- a man or fellow
- a sailor
- the male of certain animals, esp of the ass or donkey
- a mechanical or hydraulic device for exerting a large force, esp to raise a heavy weight such as a motor vehicle
- any of several mechanical devices that replace manpower, such as a contrivance for rotating meat on a spit
- one of four playing cards in a pack, one for each suit, bearing the picture of a young prince; knave
- a small usually white bowl at which the players aim with their own bowls
- 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
- a flag, esp a small flag flown at the bow of a ship indicating the ship's nationality
- either of a pair of crosstrees at the head of a topgallant mast used as standoffs for the royal shrouds
- 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
- any of various tropical and subtropical carangid fishes, esp those of the genus Caranx, such as C. hippos (crevalle jack)
- one of the pieces used in the game of jacks
- short for applejack, bootjack, jackass, jackfish, jack rabbit, lumberjack
- US a slang word for money
- everyone without exception
- venereal disease
- tired or fed up with (something)
- to lift or push (an object) with a jack
- to connect (an electronic device) with another by means of a jack and a jack plug
- to hunt (fish or game) by seeking them out or dazzling them with a flashlight
- short for jackfruit
- a short sleeveless coat of armour of the Middle Ages, consisting usually of a canvas base with metal plates
- a drinking vessel, often of leather
- I'm all right, Jack British informal
- a remark indicating smug and complacent selfishness
- (as modifier)