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jacks

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d?æks/
  • Rhymes: -æks

Noun

jacks

  1. plural of jack
  2. (poker slang) A pair of jacks.
  3. (Britain, rhyming slang) Heroin tablets (from "jacks and jills" = pills)
    • 2011, R. Tyler, Heroin Guns
      As soon as Barry swung the machete at his head, Vince snapped the PSF knife out of his pocket with his right hand and the jacks from his pocket with his left.

Translations

Noun

jacks

  1. (slang, now chiefly Ireland) Alternative form of jakes: an outhouse or lavatory.

Translations

Noun

jacks (uncountable)

  1. (games) A children's game involving picking up objects; knucklebones; jackstones.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

jacks

  1. Plural form of jack

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marbles

English

Noun

marbles pl (plural only)

  1. Any of several children's games played with small balls (made of marble or more commonly glass).
  2. (figuratively, usually in a limited number of expressions) Sanity.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sanity
    • 2012, J. T. Petty, Bloody Chester, First Second, ?ISBN, p. 63:
      —Her daddy's crazy. [...] Think she's looking for something?
      —Treasure, I expect. That or maybe her daddy's marbles.
  3. (motor racing) Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.

Derived terms

  • all one's marbles
  • lose one's marbles

Translations

Noun

marbles

  1. plural of marble

Verb

marbles

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marble

Further reading

  • marble (toy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Amblers, amblers, blamers, lambers, rambles

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