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jackleg

/jak-leg/US // ˈdʒækˌlɛg //

大腿,千斤顶,大脚板,大脚怪

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : unskilled or untrained for one's work; amateur: a jackleg electrician.
    • : unscrupulous or without the accepted standards of one's profession: a jackleg lawyer.
    • : makeshift; temporary.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an unskilled or unscrupulous itinerant worker or practitioner.

Examples

  • I flagged him back a piece and told him the Jackleg was there.

  • Out there in the sunshine the Jackleg looked the part, so I wondered how we come to be faked by him.

  • I reports an' asks instructions as to the best way of disposin' of Mr. Jackleg's remains.

  • This was so at Jackleg, but it gave a long vista of Main Street from the heart of the town to its outlying suburbs.

  • This train that was stopping to cast loose the special car at Jackleg was the last to stop at that station at night.