Jack (dʒæk)
— n
informal ( Brit ) I'm all right, Jack
a. a remark indicating smug and complacent selfishness
b. ( as modifier ): an ``I'm all right, Jack'' attitude
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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jack definition
1.n.
money. : I don't have the jack for a deal like that.
2.n.
tobacco for rolling cigarettes. : You got some jack I can bum?
3.n.
nothing. (Probably from jack-shit.) : Your last idea wasn't worth jack. Do I pay you to come up with stuff that bad?
4.n.
a strange person; an annoying person. (Possibly from jackass or jack-shit.) : Willy, stop acting like such a jack!
5.tv.
to steal something. : I didn't buy it, I jacked it!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
Sonnet 121: Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
When not to be receives reproach of being,
And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed
Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.
For why should others' false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,
Which in their wills count bad what I think good?
No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses reckon up their own.
I may be straight though they themselves be bevel.
By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be shown,
Unless this general evil they maintain:
All men are bad, and in their badness reign.
William Shakespeare
