jack

Plural: jacks

Noun

• a small worthless amount
  • "you don't know jack"
• a man who serves as a sailor
• someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
• immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted
• a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling
• an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug
• 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
• small flag indicating a ship's nationality
• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
• tool for exerting pressure or lifting
• any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas
• male donkey
• A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
• A man.
• A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
• A man.
• A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
• A man.
• A sailor.
• A man.
• A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
• A man.
• A manual laborer.
• A man.
• A lumberjack.
• A man.
• A sepoy.
• A device or utensil.
• A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
• A device or utensil.
• Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.
• A device or utensil.
• a tool used in manual production of glass objects (like bottles or wine glasses).
• A device or utensil.
• A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck.
• A device or utensil.
• A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
• A device or utensil.
• A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
• A device or utensil.
• Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
• A device or utensil.
• A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
• A device or utensil.
• A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck-box.
• A device or utensil.
• A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.
• A device or utensil.
• A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
• A non-tool object or thing.
• A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
• A non-tool object or thing.
• The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
• A non-tool object or thing.
• A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
• A non-tool object or thing.
• A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
• A non-tool object or thing.
• A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint.
• A non-tool object or thing.
• A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign.
• A non-tool object or thing.
• A jackcrosstree.
• A non-tool object or thing.
• A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
• A non-tool object or thing.
• A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
• A non-tool object or thing.
• Money, cash.
• A non-tool object or thing.
• A strong alcoholic liquor, especially home-distilled or illicit.
• A non-tool object or thing.
• Nothing, not anything, jack shit.
• A non-tool object or thing.
• The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
• A non-tool object or thing.
• A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
• A plant or animal.
• A pike, especially when young.
• A plant or animal.
• A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
• A plant or animal.
• Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
• A plant or animal.
• A jackrabbit.
• A plant or animal.
• A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
• A plant or animal.
• Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
• A plant or animal.
• Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
• A plant or animal.
• Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
• A plant or animal.
• Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.
• The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.
• The related tree Mangifera caesia.
• A home run.

Verb

Verb Forms: jacked, jacking, jacks

• To raise something using a mechanical lifting device.
• lift with a special device
  • "jack up the car so you can change the tire"
• hunt with a jacklight
• To physically raise using a jack.
• To raise or increase.
• To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.
• To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).
• To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
• To jack off, to masturbate.
• To fight.
• To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).
• To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.

Adj

• Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).

Examples

• He jacked the car so that he could replace the brake pads.
• He managed to JACK up his score by playing ’JACKPOT’ for 90 points.
• If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results.
• jack of mail
• jack of plate
• padded jack
• Someone jacked my car last night!
• telephone jack
• You haven't done jack. Get up and get this room cleaned up right now!

Synonyms

diddley, diddly, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, gob, jack up, Jack-tar, jackass, jackfruit, jacklight, jackstones, jak, knave, laborer, labourer, manual laborer, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman, shit, squat, tar, 5-O, John Law, John Q. Law, Johnny Hopper, Mr Plod, Officer Friendly, Old Bill, PC Plod, alphabet, barney, beatsman, bizzie, blue heeler, blue meanie, bluebottle, bluecoat, bobby, body snatcher, bogey, boy in blue, bull, bullyman, buttons, centenier, charpering omi, chazzer, cobbler, cop, copper, cozzer, cracker, crowns, crusher, dibble, fed, filth, finest, finger, five-o, flatfoot, flatty, fuzz, garda, gendarme, glowie, guardian of the peace, harman, harman-beck, jack, jack mackerel, jackboot, jake, lawman, mee-maw, monarch, mutton shunter, nuthook, oinker, peeler, pig, piggy, plod, po-po, police, police officer, policeman, policeperson, polis, raw lobster, roller, rozzer, scufter, slop, statie, swine, twelve, tyre biter, unboiled lobster, walloper, wani, white mango, wooden-top

Antonyms

plug

Related Words

ace, cater, cinque, deuce, eight, five, four, joker, king, knave, nine, queen, seven, six, ten, three, trey, two

Anagrams of jack