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Meaning:
Interjection:
- baseball A player has hit a home run
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Noun:
- A common name for the freshwater pike, green pike or pickerel.
- A male animal.
- A man or men in general.
- A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object.
- An order of marine fish in the ''Carangidae'' family.
- archaic A knave (a servant or later, a deceitful man).
- A surface-mounted connector for electrical, especially telecommunications, equipment.
- ten and queen of any suit, picturing a knave or prince on its face. In some card games has a value of eleven based on its rank, but in many card games has a value of ten like the ''ten'', ''queen'', and king cards. Also called a ''knave''.
- colloquial Nothing, jackshit.
- games A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
- Large California rockfish.
- military A coarse and cheap medieval coat of defense, especially one made of leather.
- nautical A naval ensign flag flown from the main mast, mizzen mast, or the aft-most major mast of (especially) British sailing warships; Union Jack.
- nautical A small flag at the bow of a ship.
- nautical A sailor; a "jack tar".
- Appalachians A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
- slang Jack Daniel's, a brand of American whiskey.
- slang Money.
- sports A target ball in bowls, etc; a jack-ball.
- two-up A penny with a head on both sides, used for cheating. (Reference: Sidney J. Baker, ''The Australian Language'', second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 3, page 243.)
- zoology A male ass.
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Proper noun:
- male||, also used as a pet form of John.
- archaic a soldier
- informal A sailor.
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Verb:
- slang|baseball To hit a home run.
- slang|baseball To hit the ball hard.
- colloquial To steal something, typically an automobile.
- transitive To use a jack.
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