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Definition: Jackpot |
JackpotNoun1. The cumulative stake in a game (such as poker). 2. Any outstanding award. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "jackpot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Language | An unusually large pot (as in the game of poker) formed by accumulation of stakes from previous play in which no decision was reached. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
Jackpot | English | Jackable Portable Offshore Tower | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: JackpotSynonyms: kitty (n), pot (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Bower; right bower, left bower; dummy; jackpot; deck. |
Wealth | Become rich; Adjective: strike it rich; come into a sum of money, receive a windfall, receive an inheritance, hit the jackpot, win the lottery; fill one's pocket; (treasury); feather one's nest, make a fortune; make money; (acquire). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Jackpot |
| Specialty definitions using "jackpot": CHANGE PERSON. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Jackpot" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (jackpot), Indonesian (pinball), Turkish (jackpot). |
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Screenplays | You hit the jackpot! Your little goat herder makes Darryl look like a welfare case! (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield) Well, I don't blame ya. So you hit the jackpot, eh kid? (The Apartment; writing credit: Billy Wilder ; I.A.L. Diamond) Dear diary: Jackpot! (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) Spoken like a man who's never hit the jackpot. (C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation; writing credit: Kenta Fukasaku; Koshun Takami) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Jackpot (2001) Phillies Jackpot Bowling (1959) The Jackpot (1950) Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters (1949) Blondie Hits the Jackpot (1949) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Skiff off HODGSON in Jackpot Bay operating in ice conditions. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Hoping for the jackpot. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The jackpot question. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Trade | Vietnam | Special consumption taxes also apply for services such as dancing, massage, karaoke, casino, jackpot machine games, certain betting activities and golf. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Jackpot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Jackpot" is used about 96 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.75% | 90 | 34,744 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.13% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.13% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 96 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Jackpot, NV |
Expression using "jackpot": hit the jackpot. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "jackpot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | çmim i parë (grand prix). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مكسب (lucrative, profit, profitable), الفوز بالجائزة الكبرى, الكنز الجائزة الكبرى, ربح (account, bonus, draw, earning, gain, in pocket, increase, increment, lucre, make, pay, payoff, pelf, percentage, pocket, profit, prosperity, revenue, win). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | голяма награда, голям късмет (great fortune, windfall), опасно положение (rat-trap), неочаквана награда, неочакван късмет (manna), затруднение (ado, cumber, difficulty, drawback, embarrassment, encumbrance, hang up, hard sledding, hardship, hitch, involvement, perplexity, pinch, predicament, pressure, quandary, rub, scrape, spot, tickler, tight corner, tight squeeze, trouble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 困境 (Demise, Dilemma, Predicament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bank (kitty, stake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | جواءزرویهم انباشته , برنده تمام پولها. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cagnotte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Haupttreffer, Einsatz (action, commitment, deployment, employment, encouragement, entrance, entry, exertion, insert, inset, investment, mission, operation, panel, promotion, redeployment, sortie, stake, use). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σύνολο στοιχημάτων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לזכות בפרס '"ול, זכי" (gaining, privilege, right, win, winning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | halmozott nyereményalap, fõnyeremény. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | jakpot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | primo premio, premio (award, bonus, bounty, premium, prize, reward), montepremi, massimo profitto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ジャスミン茶 (jab, jack, jackal, jack-knife, JAL PAK, jam, jam bun, jam session, Jamaica, jammer, jamming, Jap, Japan, Japan bashing, Japan Cup, Japan Foundation, Japan shift, Japan Society, Japan Times, Japanese, Japanese English, Japanese management, Japanese smile, Japanesque, Japanologist, Japanology, Japonaiserie, Japonica, jasmine tea, JASRAC, javelin, jazz, jazz band, jazz chorus, jazz dance, jazz festival, jazz life, jazz piano, jazz singer, jazz song, jazzmen, judge, judge paper, judgement, juggle, junction, junk, junk accessories, junk art, junk bond, junk food, junkie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ジャックポット . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | dubbyr argid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ackpotjay prêmio (award, plume, premium, price, prise, prize, reward), bolada (haul, heaps of money, kick, loss, stake). (various references) potul cel mare, pot parolat, lozul cel mare. (various references) банк (banc, bank, banking-house, kitty). (various references) glavni zgoditak. (various references) premio máximo. (various references) pott (kitty, pot). (various references) เงินรางวัลจากการเล่นเกมหรือเสี่ยงโชค. (various references) jackpot, pot (atrocity, bloomer, blunder, Boner, break, clanger, contretemps, crease, faux pas, gaff, kitty, pool, pot, stake), bingo (bingo), büyük ikramiye (the first prize), büyük şans (a great occasion). (various references) великий виграш. (various references) th nh công lớn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "jackpot": jackpots. (additional references) | |
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"Jackpot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jacko, Jackou, Jankopiti, jockpot. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "jackpot" (pronounced ja"kpÄ't) |
| 5 | -a" k p Ä' t | crackpot. |
| 3 | -p Ä' t | eyespot, flowerpot, sunspot, teapot. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-j-k-o-p-t" | |
-2 letters: coapt. | |
-3 letters: atop, capo, coat, jack, jato, jock, jota, pack, pact, pock, tack, taco. | |
-4 letters: act, apt, cap, cat, cop, cot, jot, kat, koa, kop, oak, oat, oca, oka, opt, pac, pat, pot, taj, tao, tap, top. | |
-5 letters: at, jo, ka, op, pa, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-j-k-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: jackpots. | |
+2 letters: jockstrap. | |
+3 letters: jockstraps. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 61 63 6B 70 6F 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01110000 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J a c k p o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 0061 0063 006B 0070 006F 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)44676977828186 |
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