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Jumping Jack

Definition: Jumping Jack

Jumping Jack

Noun

1. Plaything consisting of a toy figure with movable joints that can be made to dance by pulling strings.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Modern Usage: Jumping Jack

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Jumping Jack Flash, its a gas (JUMPING JACK FLASH; performing artist: The Rolling Stones)

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

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Specialty Definition: Jumping Jack

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Jumping Jack
1. A toy figure with jointed limbs that can be made to dance by pulling an attached string.
2. A physical exercise performed by jumping to a position with the legs spread wide and the hands touching overhead and then returning to a position with the feet together and the arms at the sides.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jumping Jack."

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Photo Album: Jumping Jack

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

And they never pulled the string on even a jumping jack before!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Jumping Jack

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

jumping jack flash

14
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Modern Translation: Jumping Jack

Language Translations for "jumping jack"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

hampelmann (fidget). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umpingjay ackjay

   

Swedish

  

sprattelgubbe. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Jumping Jack

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-j-j-k-m-n-p-u"

-4 letters: camping, jacking, jauking, jauping, jumping, kingcup, mucking, packing, panicum.

-5 letters: caking, impugn, japing, juking, macing, making, pacing, puking, umiack, umping, unpack, unpick.

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Jumping Jack


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4A 75 6D 70 69 6E 67      4A 61 63 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001010 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01001010 01100001 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#117 &#109 &#112 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#74 &#97 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 0075 006D 0070 0069 006E 0067      004A 0061 0063 006B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

44877982758073244676977

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Jumping Jack"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiontysk

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättningschwedisch, svensk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch, engelsk
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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