Blackjack

Quick meaning: Blackjack is a noun meaning (card games) A common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without going over.

Meaning

(card games) A common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without going over.

More Meanings

1. (card games) A hand in the game of blackjack consisting of a face card and an ace.
2. (card games) A variant of hearts where the Jack of Spades is the penalty card.
3. (aviation) A tool of leather filled with shot (or similar), resembling the weapon, used for shaping sheet metal.
4. Any of several species of weed of genus Bidens, such as Bidens pilosa, in the family Compositae.
5. The flag (i.e., a jack) traditionally flown by pirate ships; popularly thought to be a white skull and crossed bones on a black field (the Jolly Roger).
6. (card games) A variant of switch where each player is initially dealt the same number of cards, usually seven, and when one player plays a black jack the player whose turn comes next has to pick up that many cards, unless they play a red jack (as this normally cancels a black jack).
7. (weaponry) A small, flat, blunt, usually leather-covered weapon loaded with heavy material such as lead or ball bearings, intended to inflict a blow to the head that renders the victim unconscious with diminished risk of lasting cranial trauma.

Example Sentences

A steep slope rose, crested by stunted blackjacks.

Cotton grew robustly in western Cabarrus County's blackjack soil, pointing Concord beyond its agricultural base toward its first industry: textiles.

The predominant soil is the blackjack soil like that of the lower plateaus, seemingly, however, in most cases a little more sandy and a little coarser in grain.

The pain is sometimes like the dull, heavy thud of being hit with a lead-filled blackjack; other times like a wizard is reaching deep below the skin and ripping muscles, tendons, and nerves.

Word Forms

• blackjacks
• black jack
• black-jack
• blackjacking
• blackjacked

Synonyms for blackjack

Depending on context, synonyms include pontoon, twenty-one, vingt-et-un, sap, pressure, blackmail.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include twenty-one, vingt-et-un, blackmail, cosh, pressure, sap.

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