Word: jack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Transferred use of the personal name Jack. (cricket: eleventh batsman): An allusion to the jack in playing cards, which follows the 10. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæk/, [ˈd͡ʒæk] 1. A man. Labels: capitalized Example: After Dinner they frisk away to some known Place of Rendezvous, where (at Night) every Jack has his Jill and every Jill has her Jack. 2. A man. Labels: US, countable Example: Call you me daughter? now I promiſe you / You haue ſhewd a tender fatherly regard, / To wiſh me wed to one halfe Lunaticke, / A mad-cap ruffian, and a ſwearing Iacke, / That thinkes with oathes to face the matter out. 3. A man. Labels: colloquial 4. A man. Labels: slang Example: When Wardell arrived on the scene, they were surprised to find that he was unshaven, and did not look too happy. One of them remarked: "The 'Jacks' (detectives) are after you." Example: 'I'd like you to meet DCI Henry Christie,' FB was saying. The older of the two jacks reached forward and gave Henry's right paw a quick tug. 5. A man. Labels: archaic 6. A man. Labels: Canada, US, colloquial 7. A man. Labels: India, historical, slang Example: I hope to God his theories will not unman him in action, that he will not be musing and refining when he should be leading the Jacks […] 8. A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting. Example: Our hero, among his other remarks, had obſerved, that in this place there was no ſuch utenſil as a jack, and that all the ſpits were turned by dogs, […] 9. A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting. Example: Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap / To kiss the tender inward of thy hand, / Whilst my poor lips, which should that harvest reap, / At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand! Example: [W]hat the devil makes you so dull, Letitia? I thought to have found you popping about as brisk as the jacks of your harpsichord. 10. A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting. 11. A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting. Labels: obsolete 12. A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting. 13. A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting. Example: She used a jack to lift her car and changed the tire. 14. A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting. 15. A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting. Labels: archaic 16. A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting. Labels: obsolete 17. A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting. Labels: obsolete 18. A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting. Example: telephone jack 19. A non-tool object or thing. Labels: historical, regional Example: Dead VVine that ſtinks of the Borrachio, ſup / From a fovvl Jack, or greaſie Maple Cup? Example: He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf—our crug—moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from. 20. A non-tool object or thing. 21. A non-tool object or thing. Labels: obsolete 22. A non-tool object or thing. Example: like an uninstructed bowler, so to speak, who thinks to attain the jack, by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it 23. A non-tool object or thing. 24. A non-tool object or thing. Labels: UK, archaic, historical, regional Example: To a pound of sugar put a jack of water. 25. A non-tool object or thing. Labels: obsolete, slang 26. A non-tool object or thing. Labels: archaic, historical 27. A non-tool object or thing. 28. A non-tool object or thing. Labels: US Example: a heron when seeing a deer attracted by the jack 29. A non-tool object or thing. Labels: US, slang Example: First off Regan carried fifteen grand, packed it in his clothes all the time. Real money, they tell me. Not just a top card and a bunch of hay. That's a lot of jack (or jack-shit) […]. Example: Angels come from everywhere with lots of jack, and when you lose it, there's no attack. Where could you get money that you don't give back? Let's go on with the show 30. A non-tool object or thing. Labels: Canada, US Example: [A] quart of raisin jack was divided between us with the result that tha day proper (after the night before) was spent very quietly, watered and Bromo-Seltzered, with amusing anecdotes occasionally sprouting from towelled head to towelled head. 31. A non-tool object or thing. Labels: euphemistic, slang Example: You haven't done jack. Get up and get this room cleaned up right now! Example: Sergeant Albrecht: Hey, c'mon, read the file! Shelly Webster, held on for 30 hours in intensive care and, her body finally just gave up. I saw it man, I couldn't do jack for her. 32. A non-tool object or thing. Labels: slang 33. A non-tool object or thing. Labels: slang 34. A plant or animal. 35. A plant or animal. Labels: US 36. A plant or animal. 37. A plant or animal. Labels: US Example: Cottontails were taken along the creeks, under the willows. Their flesh was preferable to that of the jacks[…]" 38. A plant or animal. 39. A plant or animal. 40. A plant or animal. Labels: colloquial Example: Usually a jack that makes male flowers has only one main leaf (right), while female plants have two. […] The specific taxonomy of Jack-in-the Pulpit, a member of the Arum Family (Araceae), is rather up in the air. Some botanists believe all jacks are just one species, Arisaema triphyllum, while others claim there are as many as three: A. triphyllum, A. atrorubens, and A. stewardsonii. Example: In fact, most male Jacks are under 14 inches tall. Most Jacks over 14 inches tend to be Jills. 41. A plant or animal. Labels: colloquial Example: Lifting the flap at the top of the spathe reveals our slender and round-headed friend "Jack," known better to botanists as the spadix. Example: On every kid’s list of favourite plants is our quirky Jack-in-the-pulpit with its green, red or purple spadices (the Jacks) and hooded green-, red- or almost black-striped spathes (the pulpits). 42. A plant or animal.