jacky

See also: Jacky

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæki/
• Homophone: Jackie

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Noun

jacky (countable and uncountable, plural jackies)

1. (countable, slang, derogatory) A sailor.
   • 1918, Winston Churchill, A Traveller in War-Time:

     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. (UK, dialect, archaic) English gin.
   • 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore;  […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company,  […], →OCLC:

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

Derived terms

• jacky dragon
• jacky winter
• jacky-winter

Anagrams

• Y-jack

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

jacky m (plural jackys, feminine jackette)

1. a person who pimps (excessively customizes)