jackknife, n. pocket knife, penknife, clasp knife, folding knife, Brit. Dial, jockteleg.
jack-of-all-trades, n. handyman, handy-andy; factotum, do-all, general servant, man of all work,
jackpot, n. 1. Poker, pot, pool, kitty, stakes, bank.
2. first prize, main prize, prize, award, reward.
3. hit the jackpot Slang, succeed, score a success, hit it, hit the mark, turn up trumps, strike it rich, Inf. break the bank, Inf. make a killing.
jackstraw, n. 1. scarecrow, strawman, man of straw, effigy.
2. nonentity, nobody, nothing, cipher, insignificancy, little fellow, Inf. little guy, man on the street, John Doe, Inf. small fry, Sl. small fish, Sl. nebbish, Sl. Joe Blow or Joe Doakes.
jade1, n. nephrite, jadeite, jadestone, gemstone.
jade2, n. 1. hack, nag, padnag, crock, rosinante, whistler, roarer, Inf. bagabones or rackabones, Inf. rip, Sl. skate, Chiefly U.S. Sl. plug, Chiefly Brit. Sl. screw, (usu. a race horse) Sl. stiff.
2. hag, crone, witch, beldam, quean, harridan, Sl. bitch, Sl. old bag, Sl. old battle-ax; hussy, vixen, shrew; wench, trull, drab, baggage, loose woman, woman of easy virtue, pickup, Sl. chippy, Sl. floozy, Sl. broad, tart; prostitute, whore, harlot, strumpet, trollop, cocotte, scarlet woman, Archaic, doxy; call girl, streetwalker, Sl. hustler, Sl. hooker.
-v. 3. exhaust, enervate, wear out, wear down, do in; tire, weary, fatigue, Inf. tucker out; overwork, overtask, overtax; get tired, grow weary, flag, droop, wilt, burn out, Inf. peter out, Sl. poop out.
4. cloy, pall, glut, gorge; sate, satiate, slake, allay; have enough, have one's fill, have had it, have all one can stand or take, Inf. have a bellyful, Inf. be fed up, Inf. have it up to here, Sl. have a snootful.
jaded, adj. 1. exhausted, enervated, worn-out, played-out, spent, good and tired, dead tired, dog-tired, bone-weary, weary, wearied, fatigued, done-in, Inf. dead, Inf. fagged, Inf. beat, Inf. tuckered-out, Sl. bushed, Sl. whipped, Sl. wiped out, Sl. pooped, Sl. too pooped to pop.
2. satiated, sated, slaked, allayed, satisfied; gorged, glutted, cloyed, surfeited; dulled, numbed, stupefied, blunted; fed-up, tired of, sick of, sick and tired of.
3. dissolute, dissipated, wanton, abandoned, profligate, debauched; corrupt, degenerate, depraved, decadent; loose, loose-moraled, of loose morals, of easy virtue, Inf. easy, promiscuous.
jag1, n. 1. projection, spur, snag, tooth, sawtooth; cog, sprocket, ratchet.
-v. 2. notch, nick, cut, slash, gash, score, scarify; scallop, crenelate, serrate, knurl, tooth, Coining, mill.
jag2, n. 1. intoxication, inebriety, inebriation, insobriety, intemperance, drunkenness, sottedness, besottedness, tipsiness.
2. Informal, spree, carouse. See - spree (def. 2).
jagged, adj. 1. notched, notchy, serrated, serrate, serriform, saw-toothed, toothed; ragged, craggy, scraggy, ridged, rugose, nicked, chipped, rugged, uneven, irregular; spinous, spiny, spiniferous, spinigerous, bristly, spiculate, pointy, snaggy, studded.
2. zigzag, zigzagged, pinked, Vandyke edged, herringbone; crotched, forked, crenelate, crenelated, Heraldry. indented.
jail, n. 1. lockup, jailhouse, station house, police station, Scot. tollbooth, Inf. clink, U.S. Inf. calaboose, Brit. Inf. bridewell; guardhouse, guardroom, U.S. brig; prison, penitentiary, Sl. pen, house of detention, penal institution, Sl. big house, Sl. slammer,