Usually means: Game involving bouncing ball, pieces.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word Jacks:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. jacks: Merriam-Webster
  2. jacks: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jacks: Collins English Dictionary
  4. jacks: Vocabulary.com
  5. Jack's, Jacks, Jacks, jack's, jacks: Wordnik
  6. jacks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Jacks, jacks: Wiktionary
  8. jacks: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. jacks: Dictionary.com
  10. jacks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Jack's, Jack's (store), Jack's (supermarket), Jacks (band), Jacks (game), Jacks, The Jacks: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. jacks: Rhymezone
  13. jacks: FreeDictionary.org
  14. jacks: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. jacks: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jacks (game), jacks: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jacks: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. JACKS: Acronym Finder
  2. jacks: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jacks, jacks, jacks, jacks: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Jacks: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jacks)

▸ noun:  (poker slang) A pair of jacks.
▸ noun:  (UK, rhyming slang) Heroin tablets (from "jacks and jills" = pills)
▸ noun:  (games) A children's game involving picking up objects; knucklebones; jackstones.
▸ noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Jack.
▸ noun:  (slang, now chiefly Ireland) Alternative form of jakes: an outhouse or lavatory. [(now chiefly Ireland) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.]

Similar:
knucklebones, jackstones, hook, fishhooks, jackman, jacktop, paint, monkey jack, pocket pair, two pips, more...

Opposite:
queen, king, ace

Types:
rubber jacks, jack stands, jack screws, jack pads, jack hammers, jack planes, more...

Phrases:
Jumping Jacks, Union Jacks, cracker jacks, cousin jacks, screw jacks, more...

Adjectives:
hydraulic, black, screw, flap, flat, lumber, cheap, multiple, small, modular, ton



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Similar:
knucklebones, jackstones, hook, fishhooks, jackman, jacktop, paint, monkey jack, pocket pair, two pips, more...

Opposite:
queen, king, ace

Types:
rubber jacks, jack stands, jack screws, jack pads, jack hammers, jack planes, more...

Phrases:
Jumping Jacks, Union Jacks, cracker jacks, cousin jacks, screw jacks, black jacks, Apple Jacks, lazy jacks, flap jacks, whisky jacks, jacks of all trades, jacks in the box, jacks off, bottle jacks, jacks in, more...

Adjectives:
hydraulic, black, screw, flap, flat, lumber, cheap, multiple, small, modular, ton



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