Definition of "jack" in Anglais

noun

1. A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.

   • jack of plate
   • jack of mail
   • padded jack
   • Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad, / Their horses are both swift of course and strong, / They run on horseback with a slender gad, / And like a speare, but that it is more long.

noun

1. A man.

2. A device or utensil.

3. A non-tool object or thing.

4. A plant or animal.

verb

1. (transitive) To physically raise using a jack.

   • He jacked the car so that he could replace the brake pads.

2. (transitive) To raise or increase.

   • If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results.

3. To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.

4. (transitive, colloquial) To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).

   • Someone jacked my car last night!

5. (intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.

6. (colloquial, vulgar) To jack off, to masturbate.

7. (Memphis African-American slang) To fight.

8. (intransitive or transitive, informal) To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).

adjective

1. (Australia) Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).

noun

1. The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.

2. The related tree Mangifera caesia.

noun

1. (slang, baseball) A home run.

verb

1. (transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.

   • Maybe he hung a curve ball to somebody and they jacked it out of the park on him and he wasn’t upset about it.