What does jack-knife mean?
Jack-knife means A compact folding knife..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A compact folding knife..
He kept a jack-knife in his pocket for various tasks.
It took me hundreds of dives to master even the simple jackknife.
I have seen several jack-knives along that dangerous stretch of road.
Over at the stable, the men joke and drink whiskey, talk crops and play jack-knife […]
The cat jackknifed in the air and landed gracefully on its feet.
There was a world inside that tall grass. You could plop yourself down in the middle of it with the scraggly stems against the back of your neck and the endless grasses rising up and jackknifing against the bigbluesky, and the ranch and all of its players would fade into a distant dream.
Ten of the freight train's wagons had derailed, two of them foul of the Down Fast. At 2308, the TPO struck one of them, causing the locomotive (86239) to jack-knife and turn so that it was almost touching the end wall of a house in The Russetts, a new-build row that sat close to the line.
Before I knew what was happening, I'd jack-knifed the truck.
Use jack-knife when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Jack-knife means A compact folding knife..
Common synonyms include mumblety peg.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He kept a jack-knife in his pocket for various tasks.
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