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jacky

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈd͡ʒæki//

A sailor.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA sailor.

    Up and down that street on a bright Saturday afternoon may be seen our Middle Western jackies chumming with the British sailors and Tommies, or flirting with the Irish girls, or gazing through the little panes of the show-windows […]

  2. 2

    archaicEnglish gin.

    I've snuff, and tobacky, / And excellent jacky.

Forms

plural
jackies
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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