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Apparently I’d struck a nerve in that sensitive place called the male ego. 11 at-bats to finish with an unreal 70. Behind the building he was greeted by several bruisers looking for blood. I’m tall and black,” said Maurice , who is 5’9″. Whether you are successful in getting a deer or not, it is an illegal act. I’d buy that watch, but I don’t have the jack right now.

Headphones that only work when plugged in using an audio cable with a jack are always cheaper than headphones that also connect wirelessly, via Bluetooth. Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. Electric, salon-quality drills—or electric nail files—are a jack-of-all-trades tools, featuring a range of interchangeable heads designed to file, buff, and polish your natural or acrylic nails. Harper’s Bazaar Staff, Harper’s BAZAAR, 7 Jan. This option really stands out as a jack-of-all-trades including a hood.

Ty Gaskins, Men’s Health, 20 Dec. The Exorcist star Linda Blair under the giant jack-o-lantern. On 4th-and-2 from the Cal 47, the Beavers’ jack of all trades, Jack Colletto, connected with a wide-open Anthony Gould on a 37-yard completion to the 10. Steve Kroner, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov.

Spooky season is wrapping up, and with all the candy passed out and the last flames of the jack-o’-lantern candles extinguished, pumpkins across the country will soon be losing decorative ground against tinsel and boughs of holly. Karl Schneider, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. This Halloween, your front porch will be sporting a new take on the traditional jack-o’-lantern. Fed continues to jack up interest rates. If banks need to jack up deposit rates, that can put pressure on their earnings. Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in 2010, almost immediately setting off criticism that the move allowed Ticketmaster to jack up prices and add unnecessary fees.

Economist Robert Reich points out that corporations can jack up prices and not lose customers because there is a virtual monopoly in so many US industries today. Fed will jack up rates by a full percentage point. In Louisville, Kentucky, for example, rapid gentrification in the city’s West End has caused private investors to snap up properties and jack up rents, even on units qualifying for subsidized housing. Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. So can regional banks continue to hold up well even as the Fed is expected to jack up interest rates even further?

The city will be able to jack up the price of the lease to fair market value or back out of the deal if The Other Side Village doesn’t meet the requirements. Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Oct. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word ‘jack. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors.

Subscribe to America’s largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Get Word of the Day daily email! Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. One who works in a specified manual trade. J Games A playing card showing the figure of a servant or soldier and ranking below a queen. A game played with a set of small, six-pointed, traditionally metal pieces and a small ball, the object being to pick up the pieces in various combinations.

One of the six-pointed pieces so used. Sports A pin used in some games of bowling. A usually portable device for raising heavy objects by means of force applied with a lever, screw, or hydraulic press. A wooden wedge for cleaving rock.