jack
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English jakke, from Anglo-Norman jacke, Middle French jaque, jacque, from jacques (“peasant”), from the proper name Jacques. Compare jacquerie.
Inflected forms:
form: jacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jacked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more jack
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jack
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
pos: noun
examples: jack of plate
jack of mail
padded jack
Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad, / Their horses are both swift of course and strong, / They run on horseback with a slender gad, / And like a speare, but that it is more long.
threescore men in jacks or light coats of mail
The aketon, gambeson, vambasium, and jack were military vestments, calculated for the defence of the body, differing little from each other, except in their names, their materials and construction were nearly the same, the authorities quoted in the notes, shew they were all composed of many folds of linen, stuffed with cotton, wool or hair, quilted, and commonly covered with leather, made of buck or doe skin.
gloss: To physically raise using a jack.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He jacked the car so that he could replace the brake pads.
Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.]
gloss: To raise or increase.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
examples: Fruit of the orchard has been "jacked" these many generations, with Plymouth Rockers putting the hard cider barrel down into the ground to freeze, and […]
The potency of a jacked beverage depends on the temperature applied to the original beverage; the colder the liquor, the more water can be frozen out […]. In New England, where this technique was historically used, people could get applejack to around 30 percent alcohol […].
gloss: To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: Someone jacked my car last night!
A kid in a M3's getting jacked right in front of me
Now I'm in a new whip counting the big stack / Yellow-gold chain and the diamonds are black / Jack me? Nah, you don't wanna do that
gloss: To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To jack off, to masturbate.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
vulgar
examples: I don't even care about mine, I can get my shit off while jacking in the shower.
gloss: To fight.
pos: verb
gloss: To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
transitive
gloss: Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).
pos: adj
tags: Australia
examples: In the end, black and white were both crawling on the ground in reconciliation. Both saying that they were plain jack of each other.
Derived words: jack of plate
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