Jacks
name, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 plural of jack form-of, plural
- 2 Alternative form of jakes: an outhouse or lavatory. Ireland, alt-of, alternative, slang
- 3 A children's game involving picking up objects; knucklebones; jackstones. uncountable
"The rest of the day he heard the children playing kick-the-can, hide-and-seek, Over-Annie-Over, jacks, tops, mibs, and the sound of the little monsters in every shrub and shadow would not let him rest."
- 4 plural of Jack form-of, plural
- 5 a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball wordnet
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- 6 A pair of jacks. slang
- 7 Heroin tablets (from "jacks and jills" = pills) UK, slang
"As soon as Barry swung the machete at his head, Vince snapped the PSF knife out of his pocket with his right hand and the jacks from his pocket with his left."
- 1 A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Jack.
Example
More examples"There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
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