JACK IN

Computing

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Director

Officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist, bureaucrat; man in office, Jack in office; office bearer; person in authority.

Humorist

Buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown; wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley; motley fool; pantaloon, gypsy; jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy; wiseacre, wise guy, smartass; fool.

Crosswords: JACK IN

Mr. Jack in the Dressing Room (1904)

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References

• Jack in the Box Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Der Union Jack in Berlin : das britische Foreign Office, die SBZ und die Formulierung britischer Deutschlandpolitik 1945/47 (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Mass Appeal Madness Spring Heeled Jack in California (reference)

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Music

• Jack in the Pulpit (reference)

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Healthy seagrass with a jack in the background. Credit: Sanctuaries.

Oil well pump jack in Lea County, New Mexico. Credit: Unknown.

Old Jack in the last agony and the fox caught in a rat trap. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Find out if he got any jack in his jeans.

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Economic History

Australia

Flag: On a blue field, U.K. Union Jack in the top left corner, a large white star directly beneath symbolizing federation, and five smaller white stars on the right half representing the Southern Cross constellation. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "JACK IN": jack in it! ♦ jack in office. Additional references.

Albanian

i rëndësishëm (capital, consequential, earnest, epoch making, eventful, front page, grave, important, imported, impressive, inflated, jack in office, mattery, mouth-filling, notable, noteworthy, responsible, serious, sidy, significant, substantial, tidy). (various references)

Czech

byrokrat (bureaucrat, jack in office). (various references)

German

stecken (baton, be, be hiding, be pinned, be sticking, be stuck, cane, case, devote, enter, insert, lay down, pick, pin, pin up, place, plant, plug, plunge, poke, pop, put, put down, put in, put up, set, slot, stab, stick, sting, thrust, tuck), machen mit, aufgeben (abandon, check in, cry uncle, discontinue, dispatch, forsake, give in, give up, jettison, lay aside, lay away, mail, part with, place, post, quit, register, relinquish, renounce, resign, say uncle, serve, set, submit, surrender, to abdicate, to capitulate, to dismiss, to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, vacate, yield). (various references)

Hungarian

fontoskodó bürokrata (jack in office). (various references)

Pig Latin

ackjay inay

Portuguese

burocrata (bureaucrat, jack in office). (various references)

Romanian

birocrat (bureaucrat, jack in office, red tapist). (various references)

Russian 

самонадеянный чиновник (Jack in office), важничающий чиновник (jack in office), важничающий (consequential, Jack in office, self-important, sidy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

naduvenko (jack in office). (various references)

Spanish

quedar (abide, agree, be situated, come off, come up, drop, fall on, fall upon, keep, lead off, leave, leave off, leave over, let into, line out, meet, remain, rest, stay, stick around, take away, take from, take off, take out, take up, tear down, throw aside, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, trail, trim away, trim off, weaken, wind), abandonar (abandon, bolt, break, call off, cast away, cede, chuck, clear away, come off, come up, desert, ditch, drop, drop out, flee, forsake, give in, give up, give way, iron out, lead off, leave, leave over, let into, quit, relinquish, resign, retire, take away, take from, take off, tear down, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, toss aside, walk out, walk out on, weaken, withdraw, yield). (various references)

Swedish

lämna (abandon, desert, drop, forsake, furnish, give, give up, hand, hand down, leave, leaving, offer, quit, render, vacate, yield), övergiva (abandon, desert, discard, drop, forsake, jettison, jilt, plant, slough off, throw over, throw overboard, yield), överge (abandon, desert, discard, drop, forsake, jettison, jilt, leave, plant, slough off, throw over, throw overboard, yield). (various references)

Thai

เลิกทำ, อั�"เข้าไป. (various references)

Turkish

vazgeçmek (abandon, back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, beat a retreat, cease, cede, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, desist, disclaim, dispense with, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recant, recede, relinquish, remit, renounce, resign, retract, sink, Stow, surrender, swerve, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, turn up, unlearn, waive, wangle, wangle out of), terketmek (cede, desert, desolate, discard, disuse, ditch, expose, fall off, flee, forsake, jilt, leave, relinquish, revolt from, throw over, void, walk away, walk on, walk out of, walk out on), bırakmak (abandon, allow, break oneself of a habit, chuck, consign, demise, discontinue, dismiss, dispose of, drop, drop in, drop out, edge out, expose, fail, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, grow, hand down, jilt, kick, lay down, lay off, leave, leave off, let, let go, let smb. have it, offload, outgrow, plant, put, put away, put off, put to, quit, release, release one's hold, relinquish, renounce, resign, revolt from, stop, surrender, take one's farewell of, throw over, unclasp, unlearn, unloose, walk out). (various references)

Ukrainian

кинути (wap), перестати (quit). (various references)

Misspellings

"JACK IN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jackin. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: kanji.

-2 letters: akin, cain, jack, jink, kain, kina, nick.

-3 letters: ain, ani, can, ick, ink, jin, kin.

-4 letters: ai, an, in, ka, na.

+1 letter: jacking.

+3 letters: hijacking, jacketing, jackknife.

+4 letters: antihijack, carjacking, hijackings, jackknifed, jackknifes, jackknives, jinricksha, skyjacking.

+5 letters: carjackings, highjacking, jackknifing, jackrolling, jinrickshas, rejacketing, skyjackings.