Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The accumulated stakes in a kind of poker that requires one to hold a pair of jacks or better in order to open the betting.
- noun The largest prize or reward in various games or contests.
- noun A lucky development or substantial success.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In lumbering, an unskilful piece of work.
- noun A pile of logs.
- noun In draw-poker, a pot or pool in which the ante must be repeated until some player can open the betting with a pair of jacks or better.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as jack pot. See under
jack . - noun Any larger-than-usual gambling prize formed by the accumulation of unwon bets.
- noun The highest gambling prize awarded in a gambling game in which smaller prizes are also awarded, especially such a prize on a slot machine.
- noun An unusually large success in an enterprise, either unexpected or unpredictable, esp. one providing a great financial benefit.
- noun to receive an unexpectedly large (or the largest possible) benefit from an enterprise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
- noun A large cash prize or money.
- noun An unexpected
windfall or reward. - noun Western US A difficult situation.
- noun A jumble of felled timber.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any outstanding award
- noun the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
Etymologies
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Examples
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ANDY SCOTT guided the Bees towards the title jackpot and roared: Let's go to Vegas
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ANDY SCOTT guided the Bees towards the title jackpot and roared: Let's go to Vegas
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Add this to a handful of other divestments in power, energy and minerals companies, and a jackpot from the sale of telecom airwaves, and the government has netted itself a cool $29 billion this year.
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People play the machines because they expect a large short-term jackpot, while the machines are in fact programmed to pay off, say, $0.80 on the dollar in the long term.
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[De Grey's] "M Prize" competition for longevity research topped $1M in jackpot last week.
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The story was full of tales claiming to illustrate Americans 'overarching sense of legal entitlement and desire to "win a jackpot from a system that allows sympathetic juries to award plaintiffs not just real damages … but millions more for the impossible-to-measure' pain and suffering 'and highly arbitrary' punitive damages. '"
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Tonight's jackpot is short of breaking the European record set by a single ticket on the Italian SuperEnalotto game which banked £128.3 million on August 22 last year.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Tonight's jackpot is short of breaking the European record set by a single ticket on the Italian SuperEnalotto game which banked £128.3 million on August 22 last year.
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Tonight's jackpot is short of breaking the European record set by a single ticket on the Italian SuperEnalotto game which banked £128.3 million on August 22 last year.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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ANDY SCOTT guided the Bees towards the League Two title jackpot - and then roared: Let's all go to Vegas.
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