Crossword-Solution: JACK 4 letters, 247 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Jack	n.	A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves entire. The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow.
Jack	n.	A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.
Jack	n.	An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic.
Jack	n.	A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat.
Jack	n.	A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack
Jack	n.	A device to pull off boots.
Jack	n.	A sawhorse or sawbuck.
Jack	n.	A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack.
Jack	n.	A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
Jack	n.	A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles.
Jack	n.	A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box.
Jack	n.	A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.
Jack	n.	A compact, portable machine for planing metal.
Jack	n.	A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.
Jack	n.	A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed.
Jack	n.	A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught.
Jack	n.	In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper.
Jack	n.	In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself.
Jack	n.	A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack.
Jack	n.	The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.
Jack	n.	The male of certain animals, as of the ass.
Jack	n.	A young pike; a pickerel.
Jack	n.	The jurel.
Jack	n.	A large, California rock fish (Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and merou.
Jack	n.	The wall-eyed pike.
Jack	n.	A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint.
Jack	n.	A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State.
Jack	n.	A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree.
Jack	n.	The knave of a suit of playing cards.
Jack	n.	A coarse and cheap mediaeval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather.
Jack	n.	A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack.
Jack	v. i.	To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n.
Jack	v. t.	To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5.

We have 247 clues for the answer “JACK”

Clue	Answers
"City Slickers" Oscar-winner Palance	1 answer
"J" in a deck of cards	1 answer
"Lord of the Flies" antagonist	1 answer
"Lost" protagonist	1 answer
"Straight From the Gut" writer Welch	1 answer
"You Don't Know ___" (computer trivia game)	1 answer
"___ and Jill went up the hill ..."	1 answer
A Frost	1 answer
AC/DC jam orig. called "The Clap" (with "The")	1 answer
Aid when retiring?	1 answer
Auto lifter	1 answer
Auto tool	1 answer
Automobile tool.	1 answer
Beanstalk boy	1 answer
Beanstalk climber in a children's story	1 answer
Beanstalk climber in a fairy tale	1 answer
Beanstalk climber of lore	1 answer
Beanstalk grower	1 answer
Bentsen-Quayle debate word	1 answer
Blazer raiser?	1 answer
Bob's '96 running mate	1 answer
Bower, in euchre	1 answer
Box resident	1 answer
Bronco lifter, perhaps	1 answer
Candlestick jumper	1 answer
Candlestick jumper of rhyme	1 answer
Car raiser	1 answer
Car-lifting device	1 answer
Car-trunk need	1 answer
Civic booster	1 answer
Card game face or mechanical lifting device	1 answer
Common nursery rhyme name	1 answer
Cracker or skip	1 answer
DJ Wolfman	1 answer
Dr. Shephard on "Lost"	1 answer
EVERY man	1 answer
Either of the two highest trump cards in euchre	1 answer
Flat fixer's tool	1 answer
Flat-fixing tool	1 answer
Guy in a toy box?	1 answer
He's a real card	1 answer
High, low, ___ and the game.	1 answer
Hike, with "up"	1 answer
Ike's successor	1 answer
It beats a 10	1 answer
Jill's companion	1 answer
Jill's friend	1 answer
Kind of ass or rabbit	1 answer
Klugman or Nicklaus	1 answer
Knave (cards)	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TREEA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with JACK (5)

Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma[obs3], syntexis[obs3], tetanus, tetter[obs3], tonsillitis, tonsilitis[obs3], tracheocele[Med], trachoma, trismus[Med], varicella[Med], varicosis[Med], variola[Med], water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.

Roget’s Thesaurus Peter Mark Roget 1991

Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?” A PARODY “Come, saints and sinners, hear me tell How pious priests whip Jack and Nell, And women buy and children sell, And preach all sinners down to hell, And sing of heavenly union.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

After dinner Frank and old Moise retired to the rear room of the saloon to play California Jack and drink their cognac, and Emil went over to the banker’s with Raoul, who had been asked to sing for the bishop.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

From the interior face of the west wall of the tower projected a little canopy with a quarter-jack and small bell beneath it, the automaton being driven by the same clock machinery that struck the large bell in the tower.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

She could sit for hours and watch the sage-hens fly up and the jack-rabbits dart away from the track, without being bored.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Quotes with JACK (3)

Voicemail #1: “Hi, Isabel Culpeper. I am lying in my bed, looking at the ceiling. I am mostly naked. I am thinking of … your mother. Call me.” Voicemail #2: The first minute and thirty seconds of “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You” by the Bee Gees. Voicemail #3: “I’m bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me something to do and also make him say something. Two birds with one stone! I find all these old expressions unnec…

Maggie Stiefvater Forever

So what's the point, then, if we can't be happy? Why are we doing any of this?""Oh, there's definitely happiness," Jack said, turning his back on the ocean and looking at her. "But it's just about moments, not ever-afters." He grinned. "Like when you're right in the middle of the ocean with your friends, with no one trying to kill you in any kind of horrifying way. You have to appreciate these moments when they happen, 'cause obviously we don't get many of them.

James Riley The Half Upon a Time Trilogy: Half Upon a Time; Twice Upon a Time; Once Upon the End

My God, Jack - with a look like that, you two should just get a room. And try not to pick the one with a dead body next to it this time.

Julie James Something About You

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 133 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).