jack
杰克,千斤顶,插孔,千金
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Definitions
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- : any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- : Also called knave. Cards. a playing card bearing the picture of a soldier or servant.
- : Electricity. a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug.
- : Jack, Informal. fellow; buddy; man: 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.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, of the western Atlantic Ocean.
- : Slang. money: He won a lot of jack at the races.
- : Slang: Vulgar. 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.Also called jack crosstree. either of a pair of crosstrees at the head of a topgallant mast, used to hold royal shrouds away from the mast.
- : Jack, a sailor.
- : lumberjack.
- : applejack.
- : jack rabbit.
- : jackass.
- : 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.
- : Lawn Bowling. a small, usually white bowl or ball used as a mark for the bowlers to aim at.
- : Also called clock jack. Horology. a mechanical figure that strikes a clock bell.
- : a premigratory young male salmon.
- : Theater. brace jack.
- : Falconry. the male of a kestrel, hobby, or especially of a merlin.
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- : to lift or move with or as if with a jack: to jack a car up to change a flat tire.
- : Informal. to increase, raise, or accelerate.
- : Informal. to boost the morale of; encourage.
- : Slang. to mess up, ruin, or injure: The paint job was all jacked up.I jacked my shoulder when I fell.
- : to jacklight.
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- : to jacklight.
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- : Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple: jack rafter; jack truss.
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- : jack off, Slang: Vulgar. to masturbate.
- : jack up, Slang. 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.
Phrases
- jack off
- jack up
- before you can say Jack Robinson
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Philip drove west to the shore of fingerlike Tomales Bay, where they lunched on abalone and a smorgasbord that included the local Jack cheese and even more Teleme.
To our Jack—I’m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn’t give you the home you needed to survive.
The details were laid out in a congressional drug pricing investigation published Wednesday, which concluded that prices were jacked up to hit revenue goals for shareholders and thus score bonuses for Alles and others.
Ken Look, club sports athletic trainer at Stanford University, doesn’t recommend jumping jacks for general fitness warmups until you’ve been exercising regularly for about two weeks.
Meanwhile, Murray has jacked up 44 of these shots throughout the playoffs.
Starting in the 1970s, then MPAA president Jack Valenti began what was to become a decades-long fight against the quota system.
Heinold's First and Last Chance, Oakland (Jack London, Taft) You can thank Johnny Heinold for your favorite Jack London book.
But not even the threat of death can suppress the urge to live vicariously through Jack Dawson and James Bond.
As I size up the scene, Jack White now wears the crown … and he wears it well.
Nets guard Jarrett Jack claimed credit for the shirts LeBron James and several other players were seen in before the game.
Strathland would bundle me out in ten minutes if anything happened to Jack.
She is immensely rich, one of the ablest political women in London, and Jack is desperately in love with her.
How on earth can Jack find time to think about women with the immense amount of work he gets through?
No, Jack is not much to look at, except when he wakes up—I have seen him quite transfigured on the platform.
Little Jack Charmington, her husband, had a snug four hundred a year of his own, which quite sufficed for his modest needs.