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jack
noun- anything at all; nothing at all US, 1973
- Junior Stebbens, I recently realized, don’t know jack about brakes. — Joe Bob Briggs, Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In, p. 48, 1987
- Then the firin pin hit a empty spot an you end up with jack. — Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, p. 7, 1992
- It’s been, what, nearly a week and you haven’t given me jack. — Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing, p. 17, 2002
- the anus UK, 1984
Notably in “up your jack!”. - an act of masturbation US
- After surviving their first ambush at Al Gharraf, a couple of Marines even admitted to an almost frenzied need to get off combat jacks. — Rolling Stone, 24 July 2003
- semen US
- Possibly by back-formation from JACK OFF
- Any moke can shoot jack into a woman make a kid. — Joel Rose, Kill Kill Faster Faster, p. 47, 1997
- a sexually transmitted infection AUSTRALIA, 1944
Short for “jack in the box”, rhyming slang for POX- “He give me a stifficate sayin’ I got no jack, no crabs, no nothin’,” she said proudly[.] — Lance Peters, The Dirty Half-Mile, p. 92, 1979
- Hope you get the jack, lady. — Robert English, Toxic Kisses, p. 46, 1979
- — Thommo, The Dictionary of Australian Swearing and Sex Sayings, p. 129, 1985
- methylated spirits as an alcoholic drink UK
Probably a variation of JAKE- — Sunday Times, 13 August 1961: “Prison saves the jack drinkers”
- a homemade alcoholic beverage, usually applejack or raisinjack US, 1894
- Since that time they had been into a jug of Jack together a few times. — Odie Hawkins, The Busting Out of an Ordinary Man, p. 56, 1985
- tobacco US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 130, 1949
- a small heroin pill UK
- — Bournemouth Evening Echo, 19 August 1967
- — Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, July 1978
- Dr. Feelgood’s cure had apparently intensified my problem, and the little white “jacks,” tiny pills of pure heroin, made some contribution as well. — Peter Coyote, Sleeping Where I Fall, p. 166, 1998
- in bowls, the small white ball that serves as a target for the bowls UK, 1611
- The little white ball is variously known as the jack, the kitty, the kate, the cot, the pot and the white, according to where you live. — David Bryant, The Game of Bowls, p. 39, 1990
- money US, 1890
- Dope crabbed Phil’s effect by saying that Garrity had cleaned up some jack playing the market. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 32, 1947
- What you need is a vacation. A decent one–with jack to spend–maybe at the seashore or up at Lake George. — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 335, 1949
- The same guy what gets the pay-off jack, I guess. — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, p. 135, 1950
- From time to time, socialites and even foreign noblemen who need the jack obby for it. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 167, 1951
- All the jack he’d made in the rackets was gone. — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, p. 5, 1953
- He dress like he got the jack fer tippin. — Robert Gover, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, p. 20, 1961
- We lived for these fantastic sums of jack. — James Carr, Bad, p. 136, 1975
- And then He said, “Let there be a bunch of sleazy guys hanging around Camden, New Jersey, trying to hustle up enough jack so they can move to Atlantic City.” — Joe Bob Briggs, Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In, p. 5, 1987
- a counterfeit double-headed coin AUSTRALIA, 1936
Origin unknown. - — Ryan Aven-Bray, Ridgey Didge Oz Jack Lang, p. 32, 1983
- a robbery US, 1988
- The Cadillac is rolling up to the intersection where the “jack” is taking place. — Menace II Society, 1993
- Parker told the investigators she and friends stopped to buy a bottle of soda, then decided to “do a jack,” street slang for a robbery. — Tampa (Florida) Tribune, p. 1, 19 August 1997
- a police officer or detective UK, 1889
- We’ve only got the military Jacks to worry about. — Vince Kelly, The Bogeyman, p. 109, 1956
- Remember the robbery in Bondi, you know the one where Bluey give it to those jacks, six of them there were? — Kevin Mackey, The Cure, p. 100, 1970
- A barman in a [Leeds] shebeen [says], “I don’t care what the jacks say [...] He [the Yorkshire Ripper] may not be a blackie but we’ve had the lot round here.” — New Society, 14 June 1979
- — Ryan Aven-Bray, Ridgey Didge Oz Jack Lang, p. 32, 1983
- — Shane Maloney, Nice Try, p. 192, 1998
- a friend BAHAMAS
- — Patricia Clinton-Meicholas, More Talkin’ Bahamian, p. 60, 1995
- a kookaburra AUSTRALIA, 1898
Shortening of “laughing jackass”. - a peek or a look NEW ZEALAND
- You should have a jack at her diary. — H. Beaton, Outside In, p. 74, 1984
- a cellular phone US
- Everybody get the fuck back, excuse me bitch, gimme your jack. — RZA, The Wu-Tang Manual, p. 170, 2005
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