JACK
Definition:
- [noun] a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack"
Synonyms: diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat, shit
- [noun] a man who serves as a sailor
Synonyms: mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog
- [noun] someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
Synonyms: laborer, manual laborer, labourer
- [noun] immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of; its seeds are commonly roasted
Synonyms: fruit, jak
- [noun] an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug
- [noun] game equipment consisting of one of several small objects picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks
- [noun] small flag indicating a ship's nationality
- [noun] one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
Synonyms: knave
- [noun] tool for exerting pressure or lifting
- [noun] any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm-temperate seas
- [noun] male donkey
Synonyms: ass
- [verb] lift with a special device; "jack up the car so you can change the tire"
Synonyms: up
- [verb] hunt with a jacklight
Synonyms: light
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Related Words:
- able seaman, able-bodied seaman
- boatswain, bos'n, bo's'n, bosun, bo'sun
- deckhand, roustabout
- helmsman, steersman, steerer
- lighterman, bargeman, bargee
- officer, ship's officer
- pilot
- sea lawyer
- whaler
- agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer
- bracero
- cleaner
- day laborer, day labourer
- digger
- dishwasher
- drudge, peon, navvy, galley slave
- gandy dancer
- gravedigger
- hewer
- hired hand, hand, hired man
- hod carrier, hodman
- itinerant
- lumberman, lumberjack, feller, faller
- miner, mineworker
- muleteer, mule skinner, mule driver, skinner
- platelayer, tracklayer
- porter
- rail-splitter, splitter
- sawyer
- section hand
- sprayer
- stacker
- steeplejack
- stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, dock-walloper, lumper
- stoker, fireman
- woodcutter
- wrecker
- yardman
- telephone jack, phone jack
- bumper jack
- jackscrew, screw jack
- crevalle jack, jack crevalle, Caranx hippos
- yellow jack, Caranx bartholomaei
- runner, blue runner, Caranx crysos
- rainbow runner, Elagatis bipinnulata
- leatherjacket, leatherjack
- threadfish, thread-fish, Alectis ciliaris
- amberjack, amberfish
- yellowtail, Seriola dorsalis
- rudderfish, banded rudderfish, Seriola zonata
- kingfish, Seriola grandis