ALL meanings of jacking
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J j - noun jacking any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods. 1
- noun jacking Also called knave. Cards. a playing card bearing the picture of a soldier or servant. 1
- noun jacking Electricity. a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug. 1
- noun jacking (initial capital letter) Informal. fellow; buddy; man (usually used in addressing a stranger): Hey, Jack, which way to Jersey? 1
- noun jacking 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 jacking 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 jacking Slang. money: He won a lot of jack at the races. 1
- noun jacking Slang: Vulgar. jack shit. 1
- noun jacking 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 jacking (initial capital letter) a sailor. 1
- noun jacking a lumberjack. 1
- noun jacking applejack. 1
- noun jacking jack rabbit. 1
- noun jacking a jackass. 1
- abbreviation JACKING jacklight. 1
- noun jacking a device for turning a spit. 1
- noun jacking 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 jacking Lawn Bowling. a small, usually white bowl or ball used as a mark for the bowlers to aim at. 1
- noun jacking Also called clock jack. Horology. a mechanical figure that strikes a clock bell. 1
- noun jacking a premigratory young male salmon. 1
- noun jacking Theater. brace jack. 1
- noun jacking Falconry. the male of a kestrel, hobby, or especially of a merlin. 1
- verb with object jacking to steal: Some neighborhood kids jacked her car and took it for a joyride. Hackers jacked my email account in a phishing scam. 1
- verb with object jacking to rob: He got jacked on his way home from the club. 1
- verb without object jacking to jacklight. 1
- adjective jacking Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple: jack rafter; jack truss. 1
- idioms jacking every man jack, everyone without exception: They presented a formidable opposition, every man jack of them. 1
- noun jacking Present participle of jack. 1
- noun jacking A street robbery. 0