Usually means: Powerful tool for breaking concrete.
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  1. jackhammer: Merriam-Webster
  2. jackhammer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jackhammer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jackhammer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jackhammer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jackhammer, jackhammer: Wordnik
  7. jackhammer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jackhammer: Wiktionary
  9. jackhammer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jackhammer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jackhammer: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. jackhammer: Dictionary.com
  13. jackhammer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. JackHammer, Jackhammer (Wrestling), Jackhammer (comics), Jackhammer (disambiguation), Jackhammer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. jackhammer: Rhymezone
  16. jackhammer: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. jackhammer: FreeDictionary.org
  18. jackhammer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. jackhammer: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. jackhammer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. jackhammer: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jackhammer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the Jackhammer: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See jackhammering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A portable percussive power tool that combines a hammer and chisel used to drill or break hard matter, for instance rock or concrete.
noun:  (figurative) Something that is very strong but also very rigid.
verb:  (intransitive) To use a jackhammer.
verb:  (transitive) To break (something) using a jackhammer.
verb:  (transitive) To form (something) using a jackhammer.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To move like a jackhammer.
verb:  To beat hard, to pound. (of the heart or pulse)
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To move (something) like a jackhammer.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To strike (something) repeatedly with force, to pound.

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