Jack Tar

Jack Tar

A slang term for a sailor. I hardly ever see my brother now that he's a Jack Tar and constantly traveling.
See also: jack, tar
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • jack all
  • jill off
  • jill it
  • jack it
  • before (one) can say Jack Robinson
  • before you can say Jack Robinson
  • before you could say Jack Robinson
  • Robinson
  • trade
  • jacked
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Jack Tar has a similar distribution to Tosspot, but again with smaller numbers (Figure 6).
The calling-on song in the North-West of England - Part I
Later productions almost invariably climaxed with Jack Tar's intervention, regardless of geographical fact or historical probability.
The theatre of war: Marius Kwint reveals long-standing connections between the military and thespian worlds. (Cross Current)
A seven-night land package including two nights bed and breakfast at the Barcelo Gran Lina Hotel And Casino, Santo Domingo, two nights all-inclusive at the Amhsa Marina Estrella del Mar, Cabarete, two nights all-inclusive at Rancho Baiguate, Jarabacoa and one night at the all-inclusive at Jack Tar Village, Playa Dorodoa costs from $299 US dollars (around pounds 210) per person, based on two adults sharing a double room (excluding all flights).
Travel: Delights of the Dominican; From outdoor activities to lounging on beautiful beaches, Alison Purdy discovers the Dominican Republic to be an ideal holiday destination
A sevennight land package including two nights bed and breakfast at the Barcelo Gran Lina Hotel And Casino, Santo Domingo, two nights all-inclusive at the Amhsa Marina Estrella del Mar, Cabarete, two nights all-inclusive at Rancho Baiguate, Jarabacoa and one night at the all-inclusive at Jack Tar Village, Playa Dorodoa costs from 299 US dollars (around pounds 210) per person, based on two adults sharing a double room (excluding all flights).
CARIBBEAN DREAM COMES TO LIFE; Go-Zone : Overpowered by the Dominican effect
male animalism, reminded us only of Jack Tar walking a quarterdeck in
Charlotte Capers, Tennessee Williams, and the Mississippi premiere of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' (critic, playwright)
Edward Donnachie, 30, of Maryhill, Glasgow, has been ill since he and his bride, Yvonne, honeymooned on a Thomson holiday at the Jack Tar Village.
HOLIDAY JUDGE; OUR DREAM TRIP WAS A REAL RIOT
An all-inclusive stay at Jack Tar Village in Playa Dorada costs from pounds 499 for 14 nights, based on two sharing.
Jet away for a real flight of fancy!
Will Jack Tar, in the next volume, with one bound, make himself free?
France and Britain: 1900-1940. Entente and Estrangement
(or Tommy Atkins) A British private soldier, as a Jack Tar is a British sailor.
Tommy
When trying to battle through the hordes of them that block the pavements and roads - because they never make any effort to move out of the way - one experiences such language as would make even the jolliest Jack Tar blush.
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From Jack Tar to Jack Rackam and from Africa to America, Rediker has been exploring the conflicts, perils, and radicalisms of life at sea, and this book carries on that project by offering a single-volume version of his many analyses.
Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail
"Then, just as Hamlet stalked on in black cloak and tights, a Jack Tar in the audience sent the house into shrieks of laughter by calling out 'All hands to the pumps, the ship has sprung a leak.' "But the laughter was no sooner silenced than the audience discovered that the water had penetrated into the pit, and the occupants had to beat a hasty retreat.
Hamlet left crowd in floods of laughter; Cardiff Remembered
A beautiful maiden obsessed with etiquette, a chorus of professional bridesmaids, a jolly Jack Tar on the make and a mad woman crazed for love are among the inhabitants of this typical English village.
Opera builds to excellent finale
Watch as a mere sip of Alinamin V energy drink can turn him into some spikey-haired genie given to shouting maniacally for no discernible reason, while the "just add boiling water" goodness of Cup Noodle inexplicably transforms him into a deep sea diver, replete with big metal helmet and small child nautically dressed as a Jolly Jack Tar by his side.
When the message seems lost in translation; And Catherine Zeta-Jones isn't the only big star who's been hired to sell products to the Japanese, as these little-seen far-out ads from The Far East show
WITH THE PUBLICATION of "Jack Tar in the Streets: Merchant Seamen in the Politics of Revolutionary America" in 1968, Jesse Lemisch helped to transform the ways in which historians viewed the American Revolution.
The many motivations of Jack Tar