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Antonyms for blackjack
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : blak-jak |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈblækˌdʒæk |
Definition of blackjack
Origin :- used in many senses since 16c., earliest is possibly "tar-coated leather jug for beer" (1590s), from black (adj.) + jack in any of its many slang senses. The weapon so called from 1889; the card game by 1900.
- verb coerce
- "On we went then," said Aylward, after a long pull at his blackjack.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- There would be a game of blackjack going on somewhere there about now.
- Extract from : « The Martian Cabal » by Roman Frederick Starzl
- The fact that it had been a blackjack that had hit him was important.
- Extract from : « Out Like a Light » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- I must have that girl, dad, or this town is a blackjack swamp forevermore.
- Extract from : « The Four Million » by O. Henry
- "Blackjack" Donnely had made that clear in his trial in Texas.
- Extract from : « The Penal Cluster » by Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)
- Roland is so weak-minded that he takes the blackjack and puts it in his pocket.
- Extract from : « The Criminal Imbecile » by Henry Herbert Goddard
- George stooped over and whispered to me, Where is the blackjack?
- Extract from : « The Criminal Imbecile » by Henry Herbert Goddard
- The guard produced a blackjack and tapped the shot-filled leather in his palm.
- Extract from : « Insidekick » by Jesse Franklin Bone
- Then I suppose we give him the blackjack and take it all away from him?
- Extract from : « Young Wallingford » by George Randolph Chester
- He struck with the blackjack, and Lefty barely avoided the blow.
- Extract from : « Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager » by Burt L. Standish
Synonyms for blackjack
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