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Is jack a Scrabble word?

Yes, jack is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 17 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of jack?

Definition

noun (English)

1. A man.Examples: "After Dinner they frisk away to some known Place of Rendezvous, where (at Night) every Jack has his Jill and every Jill has her Jack."capitalized

2. A man.Examples: "Call you me daughter? now I promiſe you / You haue ſhewd a tender fatherly regard, / To wiſh me wed to one halfe Lunaticke, / A mad-cap ruffian, and a ſwearing Iacke, / That thinkes with oathes to face the matter out."UScountable

3. A man.colloquial

4. A man.Examples: "When Wardell arrived on the scene, they were surprised to find that he was unshaven, and did not look too happy. One of them remarked: "The 'Jacks' (detectives) are after you.""; "'I'd like you to meet DCI Henry Christie,' FB was saying. The older of the two jacks reached forward and gave Henry's right paw a quick tug."Synonyms: jake, 5-O, alphabet, barney, beatsman, bizzie, bluebottle, bluecoatslang

5. A man.archaic

6. A man.CanadaUScolloquial

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To physically raise using a jack.Examples: "He jacked the car so that he could replace the brake pads."; "Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.]"Synonyms: jack uptransitive

2. (transitive) To raise or increase.Examples: "If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results."transitive

3. (transitive, colloquial) To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).Examples: "Someone jacked my car last night!"; "A kid in a M3's getting jacked right in front of me"; "Now I'm in a new whip counting the big stack / Yellow-gold chain and the diamonds are black / Jack me? Nah, you don't wanna do that"colloquialtransitive

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

5. (colloquial, vulgar) To jack off, to masturbate.Examples: "I don't even care about mine, I can get my shit off while jacking in the shower."colloquialvulgar

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

adj (English)

1. (Australia) Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).Examples: "In the end, black and white were both crawling on the ground in reconciliation. Both saying that they were plain jack of each other."Australia

noun (English)

1. (slang, baseball) A home run.Examples: "The year before ('76) Kingman had 37 jacks with only 502 PAs. Is that the limit?"; "Me three. I never have quite understood all the "three true outcomes" fetish around here. I mean, I know that building an offense around walks and 3-run jacks embodies the Sabermetric Virtues, and especially in today's conditions that's the way to win, but man, it sure leads to some slow, boring games."; "3-run jacks are just another tool in a team's chest. The goal is to make the playoffs, then win at least one more game than your opponent each round. And repeat next year, and the year after that, and..."slang

verb (English)

1. (transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.Examples: "An excellent piece of work, Wayne thought, so good in fact, he wasn’t surprised when Bailey walked to the plate and on the first pitch jacked the ball far into the parking lot outside the left-field fence for a tournament winning homerun."; "Therefore, even though Vizquel is certainly not a power hitter, at times he will try to jack the ball, perhaps pulling it with just enough oomph to carry down the line for a homer."; "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."slangtransitive

name (English)

1. (colloquial) Jack Daniel's, a brand of Tennessee whiskey.Examples: "Before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack."; "Got a boy back home in Michigan / And it tastes like Jack when I'm kissing him / So I told him that I never really liked his friends / Now he's gone and he's calling me a bitch again"colloquialcountableuncountable

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "jack"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "jack"?

Scrabble
17 points
J8
A1
C3
K5
Words With Friends
20 points
J10
A1
C4
K5

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