English Dictionary

blackjack

/ˈblækd͡ʒæk/

noun

(card games) A common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without going over. / (card games) A hand in the game of blackjack consisting of a face card and an ace.

I enjoy playing blackjack at the casino.

意味（1）

(card games) A common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without going over.

意味（2）

(card games) A hand in the game of blackjack consisting of a face card and an ace.

意味（3）

(card games) A variant of switch where each player is initially dealt the same number of cards, usually seven, and when one player plays a black jack the player whose turn comes next has to pick up that many cards, unless they play a red jack (as this normally cancels a black jack).

意味（4）

The flag (i.e., a jack) traditionally flown by pirate ships; popularly thought to be a white skull and crossed bones on a black field (the Jolly Roger).

意味（5）

(weaponry) A small, flat, blunt, usually leather-covered weapon loaded with heavy material such as lead or ball bearings, intended to inflict a blow to the head that renders the victim unconscious with diminished risk of lasting cranial trauma.

The pain is sometimes like the dull, heavy thud of being hit with a lead-filled blackjack; other times like a wizard is reaching deep below the skin and ripping muscles, tendons, and nerves.

意味（6）

(aviation) A tool of leather filled with shot (or similar), resembling the weapon, used for shaping sheet metal.

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Any of several species of weed of genus Bidens, such as Bidens pilosa, in the family Compositae.

意味（8）

A blackjack oak.

A steep slope rose, crested by stunted blackjacks.

意味（9）

Any of a series of hard, dark soils, often considered low quality, but suitable for growing certain crops such as cotton.

This man had a brother about six miles off, settled on a rich White River bottom-land farm -- and while a blackjack clay soil yielded seventy bushels to the acre, this fine bottom-land would not average fifty.

意味（10）

(pharmacology, UK, Australia, rare) Ammonium bituminosulfonate.

Next! steps gingerly in to confront the medical eye fastened questioningly upon him. Crook in the guts, he says tersely. The picturesque reports of previously treated and disgusted patients - have left him doubtful, and he casts, an anathematising eye upon the Black Jack bottle. Tabloids and duty! says the doctor, and the sufferer sighs with relief.