Betekenis van jack In het Nederlands

• 0 a piece of equipment that can be opened slowly under a heavy object such as a car in order to raise it off the ground:

  • You need a car jack in order to change a tyre.

• 1 a playing card with a picture of a man on it. It has a lower value than the cards showing a king or queen:

  • the jack of clubs

• 2 a small ball towards which other balls are rolled or thrown in the games of bowls or boules

• 3 a small star-shaped object used in the game of jacks, in which you throw a ball into the air and try to pick up as many as possible of these objects with the same hand before catching the ball again

• 4 a children's game in which you throw a ball into the air and try to pick up as many small star-shaped objects as possible with the same hand before catching the ball again

• 5 a connection between two pieces of electrical equipment

• 6 nothing:

  • I know jack about fashion, but I know what I like to wear.

  • There's jack shit to do here.

• 7 a device used to raise and hold something heavy off the ground, esp. one for raising a vehicle so that a tire can be changed

• 8 a playing card that has a picture of a man on it and has a lower value than the cards showing a king or queen:

  • the jack of diamonds

• 9 a hole into which a wire connected to a piece of electrical equipment can be plugged so that the equipment can operate:

  • a microphone jack