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Jacobs

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈd͡ʒeɪkəbz//

An English surname originating as a patronymic derived from Jacob.

proper noun

  1. 1

    An English surname originating as a patronymic derived from Jacob.

  2. 2

    A place in the United States: A southern neighbourhood of Louisville, Kentucky.

  3. 3

    A place in the United States: A town in Ashland County, Wisconsin, named after William H. Jacobs.

  4. 4

    A place in the United States: Former name of Port Providence, Pennsylvania.

noun

  1. 1

    slangTesticles.

    He has also provided some of the show's funniest moments - when enjoying a bath with Three Degrees star Sheila Ferguson he told her: 'I'm comfortable with anything, love, but you don't want to see my 'Jacobs' hanging out.'

    I used to have a Velo seat, which is pretty similar to the KH in design, and I got rid of it for the same reason. The padding was so deep and spongey that my Jacobs used to float to the top as I rode along.

    Horseshit every match matters and Alex Ferguson would drag his players out of the club by their Jacobs if they made such a statement.

Etymology

Cockney rhyming slang - Jacob's Cream Crackers (a brand of crackers) = knackers

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

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).