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JACK n. 30 definitions

A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John. You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. Shak.

held by Richard Jaquett, where felons for a long time were executed; from whence we have Jack Ketch. Lloyd's MS., British Museum. [Monmouth] then accosted John Ketch, the executioner, a wretch who had butchered many brave and noble victims, and whose name has, during a century and a half, been vulgarly given to all wh…

JACK-'-LANTERN n.

See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack.

JACK-A-DANDY n.

A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.

A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow.

JACK-O'-LANTERN n. 3 definitions

See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack. JACKPOT Jackpot

JACKAL n. 2 definitions

One who does mean work for another's advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated. [Colloq.] Ld. Lytton.

JACKANAPES n. 2 definitions

A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow. A young upstart jackanapes. Arbuthnot.

To be a jackaroo; to pass one's time as a jackaroo. [Colloq., Australia]

JACKAROO; JACKEROO n.

A young man living as an apprentice on a sheep station, or otherwise engaged in acquainting himself with colonial life. [Colloq., Australia]

JACKASS n. 2 definitions

A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead. Jackass bark (Naut.), a three-masted vessel, with only the foremast square-rigged; a barkentine. -- Jackass deer (Zoöl.), the koba. -- Jackass hare, Jackass rabbit (Zoöl.). See Jack rabbit, under 2d Jack, n. -- Jackass penguin (Zoöl.), any species of penguin of the genus Sphen…

A drunken, dissolute fellow. [Ireland] S. C. Hall.

JACKET n. 6 definitions

resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket. Blue jacket. (Naut.) See under Blue. -- Steam jacket, a space filled with steam between an inner and an outer cylinder, or between a casing and a receptacle, as a kettle. -- To dust one's jacket, to give one a beating. […

Wearing, or furnished with, a jacket.

The material of a jacket; as, nonconducting jacketing.

A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife.

JACKMAN n. 2 definitions

One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n. Christie . . . the laird's chief jackman. Sir W. Scott.

A merry-andrew; a buffoon. Milton.