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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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ninesies

English

Etymology

nine +? -sies

Noun

ninesies (plural ninesies)

  1. A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where nine actions must be performed.
    • 2004, Anne Tyler, The amateur marriage (page 282)
      He saw Lindy playing jacks on the sidewalk in Front of the store, snatching up ninesies and tensies in a heedless, all-out swoop that kept the backs of her lingers perpetually scraped raw.

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