Dictionary

black jack en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Any of certain species of Caranx of gamefish, including C. latus and C. crysos, but especially Caranx lugubris.
2. (countable, uncountable) Certain beggarticks (Bidens spp.), especially Bidens pilosa.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Larva of a turnip sawfly (Athalia rosae)
   • There is a sort of black caterpillar called a black jack, which is seldom seen; but when they do come, they make terrible havock. 1807, Richard Parkinson, The Experienced Farmer, Enlarged and Improved, page 370:
4. (countable, uncountable) Sphalerite.
5. (countable, uncountable) A tufted or ring-necked scaup duck (Aythya collaris).
6. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of blackjack.
   alt of blackjack
7. (countable, uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, jack.

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Synonyms

black canker · nigger · black palmer