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jack

A2 noun

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  1. cây xoài hôi

    A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.

    capitalized

    After Dinner they frisk away to some known Place of Rendezvous, where (at Night) every Jack has his Jill and every Jill has her Jack.

  2. A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.

    us · countable

  3. A sailor.

    colloquial

  4. A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.

    slang

    'I'd like you to meet DCI Henry Christie,' FB was saying. The older of the two jacks reached forward and gave Henry's right paw a quick tug.

  5. A lumberjack.

    canada · us · colloquial

  6. A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.

  7. Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.

    [W]hat the devil makes you so dull, Letitia? I thought to have found you popping about as brisk as the jacks of your harpsichord.

  8. a tool used in manual production of glass objects (like bottles or wine glasses).

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