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jumping-jack en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of jumping jack.
    • In the beheaded frog the legs twitch as fatally when we touch the skin with acid as do a jumping-jack's when we pull the string. 1879, William James, Are We Automata?:
    • "I have a jumping-jack!" came from Freddie, and he began to work the toy up and down in a most comical fashion. 1904, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 14, in The Bobbsey Twins, Or, Merry Days Indoors and Out:
    • "Because you are built as absurdly as a jumping-jack," sneered the horse, rolling his knotty eyes in a vicious manner. "Even your head won't stay straight, and you never can tell whether you are looking backwards or forwards!" 1904, L. Frank Baum, chapter 13, in The Marvelous Land of Oz:

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