ALL meanings of crevalle jack
cre·val·le jack
C c - noun crevalle jack jack rabbit. 1
- noun crevalle jack a jackass. 1
- noun crevalle jack jacklight. 1
- noun crevalle jack a device for turning a spit. 1
- noun crevalle jack a small wooden rod in the mechanism of a harpsichord, spinet, or virginal that rises when the key is depressed and causes the attached plectrum to strike the string. 1
- noun crevalle jack Lawn Bowling. a small, usually white bowl or ball used as a mark for the bowlers to aim at. 1
- noun crevalle jack Also called clock jack. Horology. a mechanical figure that strikes a clock bell. 1
- noun crevalle jack a premigratory young male salmon. 1
- noun crevalle jack Theater. brace jack. 1
- noun crevalle jack Falconry. the male of a kestrel, hobby, or especially of a merlin. 1
- verb with object crevalle jack to lift or move (something) with or as if with a jack (usually followed by up): to jack a car up to change a flat tire. 1
- verb with object crevalle jack Informal. to increase, raise, or accelerate (prices, wages, speed, etc.) (usually followed by up). 1
- verb with object crevalle jack Informal. to boost the morale of; encourage (usually followed by up). 1
- verb with object crevalle jack Slang. to mess up, ruin, or injure (usually followed by up): The paint job was all jacked up. I jacked my shoulder when I fell. 1
- verb with object crevalle jack to jacklight. 1
- verb without object crevalle jack to jacklight. 1
- adjective crevalle jack Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple: jack rafter; jack truss. 1
- idioms crevalle jack every man jack, everyone without exception: They presented a formidable opposition, every man jack of them. 1
- noun crevalle jack any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods. 1
- noun crevalle jack Also called knave. Cards. a playing card bearing the picture of a soldier or servant. 1
- noun crevalle jack Electricity. a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug. 1
- noun crevalle jack (initial capital letter) Informal. fellow; buddy; man (usually used in addressing a stranger): Hey, Jack, which way to Jersey? 1
- noun crevalle jack Also called jackstone. Games. one of a set of small metal objects having six prongs, used in the game of jacks. one of any other set of objects, as pebbles, stones, etc., used in the game of jacks. jacks, (used with a singular verb) a children's game in which small metal objects, stones, pebbles, or the like, are tossed, caught, and moved on the ground in a number of prescribed ways, usually while bouncing a rubber ball. 1
- noun crevalle jack any of several carangid fishes, especially of the genus Caranx, as C. hippos (crevalle jack or jack crevalle) of the western Atlantic Ocean. 1
- noun crevalle jack Slang. money: He won a lot of jack at the races. 1
- noun crevalle jack Slang: Vulgar. jack shit. 1
- noun crevalle jack Nautical. a small flag flown at the jack staff of a ship, bearing a distinctive design usually symbolizing the nationality of the vessel. Also called jack crosstree. either of a pair of crosstrees at the head of a topgallant mast, used to hold royal shrouds away from the mast. 1
- noun crevalle jack (initial capital letter) a sailor. 1
- noun crevalle jack a lumberjack. 1
- noun crevalle jack applejack. 1