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Synonyms for jackpot

Grammar : Noun
Spell : jak-pot
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒækˌpɒt

Définition of jackpot

Origin :
  • also jack-pot, "big prize," 1944, from slot machine sense (1932), from obsolete poker sense (1881) of antes that begin when no player has a pair of jacks or better; from jack (n.) in the card-playing sense + pot (n.1). Earlier, in criminal slang, it meant "trouble," especially "an arrest" (1902).
  • The regular Draw-Poker game is usually varied by occasional Jack-Pots, which are played once in so many deals, or when all have refused to play, or when the player deals who holds the buck, a marker placed in the pool with every jack-pot. In a jack-pot each player puts up an equal stake and receives a hand. The pot must then be opened by a player holding a hand of the value of a pair of knaves (jacks) or better. If no player holds so valuable a hand the deal passes and each player adds a small sum to the pot or pool. When the pot is opened the opener does so by putting up any sum he chooses, within the limit, and his companions must pay in the same amount or "drop." They also possess the right to raise the opener. The new cards called for are then dealt and the opener starts the betting, the play proceeding as in the regular game. ["Encyclopaedia Britannica," 11th ed., 1911, "Poker." The article notes "Jack-Pots were introduced about 1870."]
  • noun bonanza
Example sentences :
  • When poker was played, beans were put in the jackpot instead of money.
  • Extract from : « A Gold Hunter's Experience » by Chalkley J. Hambleton
  • They looked to me like a jackpot lot, but I couldn't be sure at that distance.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
  • Did the preacher gent die, er did Brother Peyton jump the game, taking the jackpot with him?
  • Extract from : « David Lannarck, Midget » by George S. Harney
  • These editorials were vigorously rebutted by editors and columnists who as yet had not had a chance to try for the jackpot.
  • Extract from : « Mr. Chipfellow's Jackpot » by Dick Purcell
  • A faint heart may never win a fair lady, but five of them have won many a jackpot.
  • Extract from : « The New Pun Book » by Thomas A. Brown and Thomas Joseph Carey
  • "Let him keep the doggone calf and we'll have to put up a jackpot for the feller that owns it," advised Bronco.
  • Extract from : « The Long Dim Trail » by Forrestine C. Hooker
  • It was jackpot; the chips were piled high; and the man in the linen coat was dealing again.
  • Extract from : « Gunman's Reckoning » by Max Brand
  • Jimmie Greeley was raking in a jackpot, grinning fiendishly at the dour Jim Hutch when they heard heavy, running feet outside.
  • Extract from : « Down the Mother Lode » by Vivia Hemphill
  • "Instead of bein' a jackpot bunch of triflin' no-account scalawags," murmured Jack.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
  • He'd hit the jackpot—a million-year-old nest of the echindul, with sixteen pairs of stones.
  • Extract from : « The Wealth of Echindul » by Noel Miller Loomis

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