black jack

See also: blackjack, Blackjack, Black Jack, and black-jack

English

Noun

black jack (countable and uncountable, plural black jacks)

1. Alternative spelling of blackjack
2. A gamefish of species Caranx lugubris.
3. A beggartick (Bidens spp., family of Asteraceae)
4. (obsolete) The larva of a turnip sawfly (Athalia rosae)

   Synonyms: black canker, black palmer, nigger

   • 1807, Richard Parkinson, The Experienced Farmer, Enlarged and Improved, page 370:

     There is a sort of black caterpillar called a black jack, which is seldom seen; but when they do come, they make terrible havock.

5. (mining, mineralogy) Sphalerite.

References

• “black jack”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English blackjack.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɛɡˈd͡ʐɛk/
• Rhymes: -ɛk
• Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

Noun

black jack m animal

1. (card games) Alternative spelling of blackjack

Declension

Declension of black jack

	singular	plural
nominative	black jack	black jacki
genitive	black jacka	black jacków
dative	black jackowi	black jackom
accusative	black jacka	black jacki
instrumental	black jackiem	black jackami
locative	black jacku	black jackach
vocative	black jacku	black jacki

Further reading

• black jack in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• black jack in Polish dictionaries at PWN