jacky
See also: Jacky
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæki/
- Homophone: Jackie
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Noun
jacky (countable and uncountable, plural jackies)
- (countable, slang, derogatory) A sailor.
- 1918, Winston Churchill, A Traveller in War-Time:
- Up and down that street on a bright Saturday afternoon may be seen our Middle Western jackies chumming with the British sailors and Tommies, or flirting with the Irish girls, or gazing through the little panes of the show-windows […]
- (UK, dialect, archaic) English gin.
- 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:
- I've snuff, and tobacky, / And excellent jacky.
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Noun
jacky m (plural jackys, feminine jackette)
- a person who pimps (excessively customizes)