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🎤 A public name 🚫 A rude slur 🙂 A casual nickname
jacko

jacko

1 9.9
A friendly nickname for someone called Jack, Jackson, or Jacqueline
  • noun
  • Informal
translation icon : apodo Jacko
  • I'm jacko.

We're already calling him Jax and Matt keeps calling him Jacko, which I don't love, but it's quite funny.

Examples

  • Whenever we play basketball, we cheer for our teammate Jack, and we always say, "Go, jacko!"

  • Wacko jacko!

    West Side Story (1961)

  • We're already calling him Jax and Matt keeps calling him Jacko, which I don't love, but it's quite funny.

    Emily Norris

  • My friend Jack, who loves to joke around, is often called jacko by his friends.

  • At the party, everyone affectionately referred to Jacqueline as jacko because she had such a fun personality.

Compounds

Wacko Jacko
  • Offensive
9.9

A rude nickname for the singer Michael Jackson

Surface Forms

jacko singular
jackos plural

Etymology

Jacko comes from the name Jack with the friendly ending -o, so it is a short, playful 'nickname' for someone called Jack, Jackson, or Jacqueline.