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Jack Jones; Jack; Jack Malone
noun
a state of isolation, alone UK, 1925
Imperfect rhyming slang for “alone”, yet in practice the rhyme often seems to be with “own”: “on your jack” (on your own); a feeling of abandonment is often implied.- It is a strange feeling being locked up on your jack for a few days. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 25, 1958
- You’d have a job to get through them on your Jack Jones, without a lot of silly so and so’s shooting at you. — Derek Bickerton, Payroll, p. 32, 1959
- [T]hose who are on their Jack Jones; a man without a tit willow [a pillow] to lay his head on[.] — Ronnie Barker, Fletcher’s Book of Rhyming Slang, p. 39, 1979
- But if Roy’s in the shit he can fuckin’ get himself out of it on his fuckin’ jack, or he can fuckin’ stew in it if he wants. — J.J. Connolly, Know Your Enemy [britpulp], p. 151, 1999
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