blackjack

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Illegal weapons are defined as a blackjack, gas gun, metallic knuckles, gravity knife, or switchblade knife.

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  1. noun A leather-covered bludgeon with a short, flexible shaft or strap, used as a hand weapon.
  2. noun The blackjack oak.
  3. noun Games A card game in which the object is to accumulate cards with a higher count than that of the dealer but not exceeding 21. Also called twenty-one, vingt-et-un.
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  • Lori watched Joanna hang up, not certain what a blackjack was. —  Fatal Cure by Leonard Goldberg
  • He was the link to the past decades of MIT blackjack, and he was guiding the future. —  BringingDowntheHouse
  • The blow from the blackjack was hard enough to have cracked even his skull. —  052 - The Land of Fear
  • Illegal weapons are defined as a blackjack, gas gun, metallic knuckles, gravity knife, or switchblade knife. —  Kotaku
  • When the Legislature passed the law allowing local voters to approve the expansion of gambling to include table games such as poker and blackjack, the law required a vote after another five years so voters could decide if they wanted table gaming to continue.
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