jacks

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒæks/

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• Rhymes: -æks

jacks

1. plural of jack
2. (poker slang) A pair of jacks.
3. (UK, rhyming slang) Heroin tablets (from "jacks and jills" = pills)
   • 2011, R. Tyler, Heroin Guns:

     As soon as Barry swung the machete at his head, Vince snapped the PSF knife out of his pocket with his right hand and the jacks from his pocket with his left.

jacks

1. (slang, now chiefly Ireland) Alternative form of jakes: an outhouse or lavatory.

jacks (uncountable)

1. (games) A children's game involving picking up objects; knucklebones; jackstones.
   • (Can we date this quote by Ray Bradbury, Let's Play Poison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The rest of the day he heard the children playing kick-the-can, hide-and-seek, Over-Annie-Over, jacks, tops, mibs, and the sound of the little monsters in every shrub and shadow would not let him rest.

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jacks

1. plural of jack

jacks

1. plural of jack

• yax, yas, yaquis

Unadapted borrowing from English jacks.

• Rhymes: -aɡs

jacks m pl (plural only)

1. (games) jacks; knucklebones; jackstones

   Synonyms: chinta, matatena, matatenas, payaya, payana

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “jacks”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010