| Jack | |
| 1. subst. (informal) (a placeholder or conventional name for any man, particularly a younger, lower-class man) | |
| 2. subst. (informal, archaic) a Jack Tar, a sailor | |
| 3. subst. (informal, archaic) a Jack Rum, a soldier | |
| 4. subst. A jacqueminot rose. | |
| 5. subst. A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, e.g. screw jack, scissor jack, hydraulic jack, ratchet jack, scaffold jack. | |
| She used a jack to lift her car and changed the tire. | |
| 6. subst. A man or men in general. | |
| Every man jack. | |
| 7. subst. A male animal. | |
| 8. subst. A male ass. | |
| 9. subst. (card games) A playing card with the letter "J" and the image of a knave or prince on it, the eleventh card in a given suit. Also called a knave. | |
| 10. subst. (cricket, by extension) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings. | |
| 11. subst. (archaic) A knave (a servant or later, a deceitful man). | |
| 12. subst. (sports) A target ball in bowls, etc; a jack-ball. | |
| 13. subst. (games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks. | |
| 14. subst. (colloquial, euphemistic) Nothing, jack shit. | |
| You haven't done jack. Get up and get this room cleaned up right now! | |
| 15. subst. (nautical) A small flag at the bow of a ship. | |
| 16. subst. (nautical) A naval ensign flag flown from the main mast, mizzen mast, or the aft-most major mast of (especially) British sailing warships; Union Jack. | |
| 17. subst. (military) A coarse and cheap medieval coat of defense, especially one made of leather. | |
| 18. subst. A penny with a head on both sides, used for cheating.Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 3, page 243. | |
| 19. subst. (slang) Money. | |
| 20. subst. (slang) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course. | |
| 21. subst. , related to the mango tree. | |
| 22. subst. The freshwater pike, green pike or pickerel. | |
| 23. subst. A large California rockfish, the bocaccio,. | |
| 24. subst. Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae. | |
| 25. subst. (obsolete, nautical) A sailor, a jacktar. | |
| 26. subst. (obsolete) A pitcher or can of waxed leather, supposed to resemble a jackboot; a black-jack. | |
| 27. subst. (dialect) A drinking measure holding half a pint or, sometimes, a quarter of a pint. | |
| 28. subst. A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine. | |
| 29. subst. A device to pull off boots. | |
| 30. subst. A sawhorse or sawbuck. | |
| 31. subst. A machine for turning a spit; a smokejack. | |
| 32. subst. (mining) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting. | |
| 33. subst. A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine. | |
| 34. subst. A grating to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck box. | |
| 35. subst. A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine. | |
| 36. subst. A compact, portable machine for planing metal. | |
| 37. subst. A machine for slicking or pebbling leather. | |
| 38. subst. A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed. | |
| 39. subst. A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught. | |
| 40. subst. In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; also called hopper. | |
| 41. subst. In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself. | |
| 42. subst. (nautical) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; also called jack crosst | |
| 43. subst. A surface-mounted connector for electrical, especially telecommunications, equipment. | |
| telephone jack | |
| 44. subst. Female ended electrical connector (see Electrical connector) | |
| 45. subst. Electrical connector in a fixed position (see Gender of connectors and fasteners) | |
| 46. v. To use a jack. | |
| He jacked the car up so that he could replace the brake pads. | |
| 47. v. To raise or increase. | |
| If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results. | |
| 48. v. To produce by freeze distillation; to distil (an alcoholic beverage) by freezing it and removing the ice (which is water), leaving the alcohol (which remains liquid). | |
| 49. v. (transitive, colloquial) To steal something, typically an automobile. Shortened form of carjacking. | |
| Someone jacked my car last night! | |
| 50. v. (intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion. | |
| 51. subst. (slang) A home run. | |
| 52. v. (transitive, slang) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run. | |
| 53. subst. A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather. | |
| 54. subst. A jackfruit tree. | |
