to jack
- verb
- /dʒæk/
- Jargon
- The locals often jack rabbits using a light to illuminate their surroundings and catch them.
Examples
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At dusk, hunters usually jack for wild animals by shining bright lights in the fields.
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Quite a getup for jacking off deer.
Fiction book (1999) -
He went out to jack deer at night using his powerful flashlight to spot them in the dark.
Synonyms
To shine a bright light at animals at night to make them easier to shoot
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
- Offensive
To touch your own private parts to get sexual pleasure, usually by a man
Compounds
The national flag of the United Kingdom showing the crosses of England, Scotland, and Ireland
- Informal
A person who can do many different jobs fairly well but is not an expert
A person who killed several women in London in the late 1800s and was never identified
A toy figure with moving arms and legs that moves up and down when you pull its strings
- US
A medium pine tree with two yellow-green needles on each branch and rough scaly bark
- Specialized
A hand tool with a long flat bottom for smoothing and shaping wood before finishing
- Archaic
A surprising thing that seems to come by luck, not skill, like a small toy in a snack box
- Specialized
A large silver fish that lives near the coast in warm seas and fights hard when caught
- Jargon
Card game where players score points by taking the highest card, the lowest card, the jack, or most cards
- Specialized
A large strong fish people catch for sport in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
A large poisonous mushroom with orange caps that grows in tight groups and gills that glow in the dark
- Specialized
A tool that lifts heavy things by turning a screw, often used to raise a car
A simple card game for two players where one player tries to win all the other player's cards
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jack as a verb meaning to hunt with a bright light comes from the tool name jacklight, a strong lamp used to spot animals at night, so to 'jack' is to hunt using that lamp.