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ALL meanings of jack crevalle

jack cre·val·le
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  • noun jack crevalle any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods. 1
  • noun jack crevalle Also called knave. Cards. a playing card bearing the picture of a soldier or servant. 1
  • noun jack crevalle Electricity. a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug. 1
  • noun jack crevalle (initial capital letter) Informal. fellow; buddy; man (usually used in addressing a stranger): Hey, Jack, which way to Jersey? 1
  • noun jack crevalle 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 jack crevalle 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 jack crevalle Slang. money: He won a lot of jack at the races. 1
  • noun jack crevalle Slang: Vulgar. jack shit. 1
  • noun jack crevalle 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 jack crevalle (initial capital letter) a sailor. 1
  • noun jack crevalle a lumberjack. 1
  • noun jack crevalle applejack. 1
  • noun jack crevalle jack rabbit. 1
  • noun jack crevalle a jackass. 1
  • noun jack crevalle jacklight. 1
  • noun jack crevalle a device for turning a spit. 1
  • noun jack crevalle 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 jack crevalle Lawn Bowling. a small, usually white bowl or ball used as a mark for the bowlers to aim at. 1
  • noun jack crevalle Also called clock jack. Horology. a mechanical figure that strikes a clock bell. 1
  • noun jack crevalle a premigratory young male salmon. 1
  • noun jack crevalle Theater. brace jack. 1
  • noun jack crevalle Falconry. the male of a kestrel, hobby, or especially of a merlin. 1
  • verb with object jack crevalle 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 jack crevalle Informal. to increase, raise, or accelerate (prices, wages, speed, etc.) (usually followed by up). 1
  • verb with object jack crevalle Informal. to boost the morale of; encourage (usually followed by up). 1
  • verb with object jack crevalle 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 jack crevalle to jacklight. 1
  • verb without object jack crevalle to jacklight. 1
  • adjective jack crevalle Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple: jack rafter; jack truss. 1
  • idioms jack crevalle every man jack, everyone without exception: They presented a formidable opposition, every man jack of them. 1
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