Jack (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
  2. 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.
  4. fellow; buddy; man (usually used in addressing a stranger): Hey, Jack, which way to Jersey?
  5. 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.
  6. any of several carangid fishes, especially of the genus Caranx, as C. hippos(crevalle jack, or jack crevalle ), of the western Atlantic Ocean.
  7. money: He won a lot of jack at the races.
  8. jack shit.
  9. 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.
  10. a sailor.
  11. lumberjack (def. 1).
  12. applejack.
  13. jack rabbit.
  14. jackass (def. 1).
  15. jacklight.
  16. a device for turning a spit.
  17. 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.
  18. a small, usually white bowl or ball used as a mark for the bowlers to aim at.
  19. a mechanical figure that strikes a clock bell.
  20. a premigratory young male salmon.
  21. brace jack.
  22. the male of a kestrel, hobby, or especially of a merlin.
verb (used with object)
  1. 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.
  2. to increase, raise, or accelerate (prices, wages, speed, etc.) (usually followed by up).
  3. to boost the morale of; encourage (usually followed by up).
  4. to mess up, ruin, or injure (usually followed by up): The paint job was all jacked up.I jacked my shoulder when I fell.
  5. to jacklight.
verb (used without object)
  1. to jacklight.
adjective
  1. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple: jack rafter; jack truss.
Verb Phrases
  1. to masturbate.
  2. 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.
Idioms
  1. everyone without exception: They presented a formidable opposition, every man jack of them.
verb (used with object) Slang.
  1. to steal: Some neighborhood kids jacked her car and took it for a joyride.Hackers jacked my email account in a phishing scam.
  2. to rob: He got jacked on his way home from the club.
noun
  1. jackfruit.
noun
  1. a defensive coat, usually of leather, worn in medieval times by foot soldiers and others.
  2. a container for liquor, originally of waxed leather coated with tar.
noun
  1. a male given name, form of Jacob or John.
noun
  1. a man or fellow
  2. a sailor
  3. the male of certain animals, esp of the ass or donkey
  4. a mechanical or hydraulic device for exerting a large force, esp to raise a heavy weight such as a motor vehicle
  5. any of several mechanical devices that replace manpower, such as a contrivance for rotating meat on a spit
  6. one of four playing cards in a pack, one for each suit, bearing the picture of a young prince; knave
  7. a small usually white bowl at which the players aim with their own bowls
  8. 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. a flag, esp a small flag flown at the bow of a ship indicating the ship's nationality
  10. either of a pair of crosstrees at the head of a topgallant mast used as standoffs for the royal shrouds
  11. 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. any of various tropical and subtropical carangid fishes, esp those of the genus Caranx, such as C. hippos (crevalle jack)
  13. one of the pieces used in the game of jacks
  14. short for applejack, bootjack, jackass, jackfish, jack rabbit, lumberjack
  15. US a slang word for money
  16. everyone without exception
  17. venereal disease
adjective
  1. tired or fed up with (something)
verb (tr)
  1. to lift or push (an object) with a jack
  2. to connect (an electronic device) with another by means of a jack and a jack plug
  3. to hunt (fish or game) by seeking them out or dazzling them with a flashlight
noun
  1. short for jackfruit
noun
  1. a short sleeveless coat of armour of the Middle Ages, consisting usually of a canvas base with metal plates
  2. a drinking vessel, often of leather
noun
  1. I'm all right, Jack British informal
    • a remark indicating smug and complacent selfishness
    • (as modifier)
Jack (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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