jack
1. noun, slang Money. It would take a lot of jack to get an operation like that off the ground.
2. noun, slang A small, trifling, or worthless amount. Now, I know jack about computers, so you'll really have to help me fix this issue. We didn't learn jack from their presentation.
3. noun, dated slang A detective. A couple of jacks came snooping around here yesterday.
4. verb, slang To steal something. The thieve jacked a bunch of high-end consumer electronics. I didn't have enough money for the magazine, so I decided just to jack it.
5. verb, slang To rob, cheat, or deceive someone. These big companies are only interested in jacking their customers to make as much money as possible. He spent most of his teen years jacking people in the street.
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jack
1. n. money. I don’t have the jack for a deal like that.
2. n. tobacco for rolling cigarettes. You got some jack I can bum?
3. n. nothing. (Probably from jack-shit.) Your last idea wasn’t worth jack. Do I pay you to come up with stuff that bad?
4. n. a strange person; an annoying person. (Possibly from jackass or jack-shit.) Willy, stop acting like such a jack!
5. tv. to steal something. I didn’t buy it, I jacked it!
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