Definitions
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- n. Plural form of jack.
- n. A children's game involving picking up objects while a ball is in the air.
- n. A toilet.
- n. A pair of jacks.
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- n. a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball
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Examples
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As the hours passed the winemakers spit out metaphors like jacks from a destemmer; they were looking for creative ways to sway the room.
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Can someone tell me what the song playing in jacks truck was?
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Perhaps “plugged in” is not technically the right term jacks?
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Besides being the best whoel home digital music solution, it also can broadcast audio from the line-in jacks on any of its stations to any or all of the others, wirelessly (or wired).
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In addition, people have often done their own extensions that are less than quality and the plugin jacks are often outdated.
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I’m going to guess one can’t change the battery w/o sending it in so what’s the process for that … lastly, what kind of jacks is it using?
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ElBruce, I have a check in the amount of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS for any one who name jacks me.
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Donkeys, also known as burros, also are harder to sell than other farm animals, and many auctions are turning them down, particularly the males, known as jacks.
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Troll multiples and name jacks are the norm for the teatards.
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The jacks were a hardy two-fisted lot of men, Swedes, Norwegians, French
reesetee commented on the word jacks
A glassmaking tool with two metal arms joined at one end by a spring. The distance between the arms is controlled by the glassworker, who uses them while shaping the parison (for example, to form the mouths of an open vessel). Also known as a borsella or as pucellas.
November 9, 2007