Clues for the word "JACK"
We've had 119 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 133 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on February 19, 2026.
Definition of 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.
- n. - A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.
- n. - An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic.
- n. - A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat.
- 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
- n. - A device to pull off boots.
- n. - A sawhorse or sawbuck.
- n. - A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack.
- n. - A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
- n. - A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles.
- n. - A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box.
- n. - A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.
- n. - A compact, portable machine for planing metal.
- n. - A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.
- n. - A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed.
- n. - A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught.
- n. - In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper.
- n. - In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself.
- 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.
- n. - The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.
- n. - The male of certain animals, as of the ass.
- n. - A young pike; a pickerel.
- n. - The jurel.
- n. - A large, California rock fish (Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and merou.
- n. - The wall-eyed pike.
- n. - A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint.
- 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.
- 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.
- n. - The knave of a suit of playing cards.
- n. - A coarse and cheap mediaeval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather.
- n. - A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack.
- v. i. - To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n.
- v. t. - To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5.
Referring Clues
- It's an honor
- Telephone device
- Item in a trunk
- Moolah
- Phone hook-up
- Trunk item
- "You don't know ___"
- Word that can define 17- and 59-Across and 11-, 28- and 29-Down
- With 65-Across, second in a series of five TV personalities (1957-62)
- Candlestick jumper of rhyme
- Car lifter
- With 7-Down, "Lonesome Traveler" author
- Flat-fixing tool
- He's a real card
- Tire changer's need
- Mustang or Rabbit raiser
- Plug insert
- Car raiser
- Stranded motorist's aid
- "Lord of the Flies" antagonist
- Bower, in euchre
- Blazer raiser?
- What you don't know?
- Royal flush necessity
- Picture card
- Ten beater
- Noted hill climber
- Magic harp thief
- Tire-changing aid
- Trunk tool
- Tire-changing device
- Lemmon or London
- Mustang raiser?
- ______ Pine (NWT's tree)
- Got your back ___
- Mother Goose hill climber
- Hoist
- Ten topper
- ___ Frost
- Tire-changing need
- Ten topper
- Jill's friend
- Popular nursery-rhyme name
- Beanstalk climber of lore
- It may give you a lift
- With 2-Down, "Rio Lobo" actor
- With 41-Across, co-creator of Captain America and the Hulk
- Card in a royal flush
- Hike, with "up"
- First name of 34-Across
- Playing card
- Knave
- Face card
- Diddly-squat
- Lord of "Stoney Burke"
- Nursery rhyme tumbler
- Name
- Nothing, slangily
- Ryan of Tom Clancey novels
- Raise, with "up"
- Lowest face card
- It beats a 10
- "Nacho Libre" star, 2006
- Steal, slangily
- Mr. Frost
- Jill's nursery rhyme partner
- Royal flush component
- Fast food mascot with a spherical head
- Golden goose finder
- AC/DC jam orig. called "The Clap" (with "The")
- Jill's other half?
- White bowls target
- Flag lifting device
- Rowling receives a first Christmas card
- Boy - lifting device
- Sort of boot, hammer, pot or tar
- Target ball in bowls
- Court card
- Lifting device - boy's name
- Honour weightlifter
- 12
- Poker face?
- Lifting device - flag - boy's name - card - fish
- Dog akin to 9
- Best Actor Oscar winner 1997, for "As Good As It Gets"
- Means of raising a flag
- No head for heights: held by John Bird to be an elusive type
- See 3
- Actor Bill has rejected scriptwriter's material, companion admitted to Al
- Car hoist
- Card game, no limit
- Raise part of hand, perhaps
- Knave's flag?
- Put up sailor's flag
- He 23 4 with two stones
- Stone wall (unbroken) restricted reported jail-break in charge of 7 14
- ___ if French or if black, CG
- (and 3) Raise capital for writer
- See 10
- Man whose welfare I don't care about, one up the pole?
- Body shop lifter
- Will's friend on "Will & Grace"
- Boy's name
- Mini elevator?
- Boatman's a knave!
- Raise flag
- The object of Ennis Del Mar's desire in Brokeback Mountain
- Beanstalk climber in a children's story
- Either of the two highest trump cards in euchre
- ___ and Jill bathroom
- "J" in a deck of cards
- Tool in a trunk
- Guy in a toy box?
- Plug receptacle
- Beanstalk climber in a fairy tale
- Low face?
- Monterey ___ cheese
- Car-lifting device
- Part of a royal flush
Last Seen In
- New York Times - February 19, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 08, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 12, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 31, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 08, 2024
- LA Times - April 16, 2024
- USA Today - March 10, 2024
- New York Times - February 04, 2024
- LA Times - October 24, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - August 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - April 06, 2023
- Your Life Choices - April 02, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - January 06, 2023
- USA Today - November 28, 2022
- New York Times - September 14, 2022
- New York Times - July 06, 2022
- New York Times - February 16, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 16, 2018
- New Zealand Herald - December 09, 2017
- Mirror Classic - October 25, 2017
- New York Times - October 15, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - September 22, 2017
- Guardian Quick - May 18, 2017
- Jonesin - April 25, 2017
- Guardian Quick - March 22, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - March 20, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - March 13, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - March 04, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - February 13, 2017
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