# jacks

Pronunciation: say "JAKS" /d͡ʒæks/

## Noun

1. Plural of jack. — plural of jack
   - Simple: Plural of jack. Use it when you mean more than one.
   - _Movers used hydraulic jacks to raise the old house off its foundation._
   - _She laid down a pair of jacks and took the pot._
2. A children's game played by picking up small objects.
   - Simple: A game for children in which you pick up small things.
   - _Down the block, children were playing hopscotch, tag, and jacks on the warm sidewalk._
   - _Jacks takes a quick hand and a sharp eye, and my grandmother could still beat us at it._
3. In poker, a hand holding a pair of jacks. *(slang)*
   - Simple: In poker, two jack cards in your hand.
   - _She raised before the flop with jacks, then folded when an ace hit the board._
   - _He lost the biggest pot of the night with pocket jacks._
4. Alternative form of jakes: an outhouse or lavatory. *(slang, Ireland)* — Alternative form of jakes: an outhouse or lavatory.
   - Simple: Alternative form of jakes. It is a slang word for a toilet, used mostly in Ireland.
   - _Back in a minute, I'm just running to the jacks._
   - _Somebody has locked himself in the jacks again, and there's a queue down the corridor._
5. Heroin tablets, from the rhyming slang jacks and jills for pills. *(slang, UK)*
   - Simple: Pills that contain the drug heroin, in British slang.
   - _When the officers searched him, they turned up a handful of jacks in his jacket pocket._
   - _Word on the estate was that Danny had started dealing jacks again._

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