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jacks

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noun

  1. functioning as singular a game in which bone, metal, or plastic pieces ( jackstones ) are thrown and then picked up in various groups between bounces or throws of a small ball Sometimes calledknucklebones
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of jacks1

C19: shortened from jackstones , variant of checkstones pebbles
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Our minibus rattles as it takes us from Iraqi Kurdistan through Syrian oil fields, where jacks pumping crude oil line the roads.

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He then forced the injured boy to do pushups, situps and jumping jacks, prosecutors said.

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In another, he said: “When you be seeing tricolours and union jacks marching side-by-side with a common goal, walking together as opposed to tearing lumps out of each other?”

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Wactor, 37, was killed after confronting three men who had put his car up on jacks on Hope Street near Pico Boulevard in order to steal his car’s catalytic converter, authorities said.

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They would need to purchase larger support beams, more jacks and a larger truck to handle it.

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