Meaning of BLACKJACK
Pronunciation: | | 'blak`jak
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- [n] a gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the bank up to but not exceeding 21
- [n] a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
- [n] a common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad 3-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets
- [v] exert pressure on someone through threats
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| Synonyms: | | blackjack oak, blackmail, cosh, jack oak, pressure, Quercus marilandica, sap, twenty-one, vingt-et-un |
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| See Also: | | act upon, bludgeon, card game, cards, influence, scrub oak, work | |
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| Definition: | | Black Jack A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad. more details ... |
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| Related Terms: | | all fours, baccarat, banker, bastinado, bat, battering ram, billy, billy club, bludgeon, bluff, Boston, brag, bridge, bulldoze, bully, canasta, cane, casino, club, coerce, commerce, commit, connections, contract, contract bridge, cosh, cribbage, cudgel, dragoon, Earl of Coventry, ecarte, euchre, faro, ferule, five hundred, flinch, fright, frog, gin, gin rummy, goat, hearts, hijack, intimidate, keno, knobkerrie, lansquenet, life preserver, loo, lottery, lotto, mace, matrimony, monte, morning star, napoleon, nightstick, old maid, ombre, paddle, patience, penny ante, picquet, Pit, poker, Polish bank, put-and-take, quadrille, quarterstaff, ram, reverse, rouge et noir, rum, rummy, Russian bank, sandbag, seven-up, shanghai, shillelagh, skat, snipsnapsnorum, solitaire, speculation, spontoon, staff, stave, steamroller, stick, straight poker, strong-arm, stud poker, thirty-one, truncheon, twenty-one, use violence, vingt-et-un, war club, whist |
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