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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.

jacked (out)

Sl. angry; annoyed. Boy was that old guy jacked out at you. Yup, he was jacked all right.

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!

jacked

verb

See jacked out

jacked

verb

See jacked up

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References in classic literature ?

'I am afraid I am but a shallow, surface kind of fellow, Jack, and that my headpiece is none of the best.

'I couldn't fail to notice, Jack, that it cost you a great effort, and that you were very much moved, and very unlike your usual self.

'No; don't put the sentiment away, Jack; please don't; for I am very much in earnest.

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But the thing that's bothering us most, Jack, is to find the well."

Jack gazed around the landscape, for he was standing in the doorway of his house.

"But--goodness me!--the Quadling Country is full of dangers," declared Jack. "I've never been there myself, but--"

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This evening he was particularly careful not to neglect his duty, for he had just come from a conference with the boy's father and mother in which it had been impressed upon him that he must exercise the greatest care to prevent Jack visiting the music hall where Ajax was being shown.

Kneeling upon him, Jack tore strips from a sheet and bound the man's hands behind his back.

In the meantime Jack was enjoying to the full the stolen pleasures of the music hall.

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In the infinite meaning of his reply and his boundless confidence in his views, the Jack took one of his bloated shoes off, looked into it, knocked a few stones out of it on the kitchen floor, and put it on again.

"Why, what do you make out that they done with their buttons then, Jack?" asked the landlord, vacillating weakly.

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Alphonso flung back on Jack, a sorry antagonist by this time, who could only pant and quiver where he lay in the welter of what was left of him.

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Daylight showed four queens and an ace; MacDonald four jacks and an ace; and Kearns four kings and a trey.

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Jacks," Penelope said, "that I am keeping anything from you, you are very much mistaken.

Inspector Jacks smiled, picked up his hat and bowed, while Penelope, with a sigh of relief, moved over to the bell.