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characternounproper nounsymbolcommon in dialogue

  • //d͡ʒeɪ//
  • //d͡ʒeː//

The tenth letter of the English alphabet, called jay and written in the Latin script.

character

  1. 1

    The tenth letter of the English alphabet, called jay and written in the Latin script.

noun

  1. 1

    slang(plural Js or J's) A marijuana cigarette (abbreviation of joint).

    I stepped outside to smoke myself a J.

    Mind if I do a J?

    I ran out of blow a long time ago / I can't smoke a J or my guts fly away

  2. 2

    In the name of a serial publication: abbreviation of Journal.

  3. 3

    slang(plural Js or J's) an Air Jordan shoe

    Don't pay no mind, Antwon, it's just an angry-ass J...

  4. 4

    Variant of judge or justice(plural JJ) Abbreviation of judge or justice.

  5. 5

    Variant of junctionAbbreviation of junction.

    The Highways Agency plan to close J10 of the M5 to refurbish the motorway bridge.

  6. 6

    Variant of jackAbbreviation of jack.

  7. 7

    Variant of jump shotAbbreviation of jump shot.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Variant of JehovistAbbreviation of Jehovist.

symbol

  1. 1

    Tatami mat, used as a unit of floorspace area (Kyoto tatami are 0.955 by 1.91 m, Nagoya 0.91 by 1.82 m, Tokyo 0.88 by 1.76 m). (From 畳 (-jō).)

Forms

plural
Js, J's, JJ
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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