Attested asjack-pot(“big prize”), 1944; from sense "slot machine" (1932), from obsolete poker sense (1881) "antes that begin when no player has a pair of jacks or better"; fromjack(“playing card”) +pot.
jackpot (pluraljackpots)
- A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
2000, Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky,Choices, values, and frames:If no player picks all six numbers correctly, thejackpot is rolled over and added to the next week'sjackpot; several weeks of rollovers can build upjackpots up to $350 million or more.
- A large cash prize or money.
- An unexpectedwindfall or reward.
- (forestry) Aconcentration ofsurfacewood orfuel.
- a juniperjackpot
- (pinball) A large accumulated pointbonus, originally awarded after a long set of actions but now often easily available inmultiball modes.
- Bymetonymy,jackpot is also the word for several types of poker which feature jackpots (prize pools which accumulate until won).
1920,F. Scott Fitzgerald,This Side of Paradise:... they played red-dog and twenty-one andjackpot from dinner to dawn, and on the occasion of one man's birthday persuaded him to buy sufficient champagne for a hilarious celebration.
accumulating money prize pool
jackpot (third-person singular simple presentjackpots,present participlejackpotting,simple past and past participlejackpotted)
- (intransitive) Of aslot machine, toissue a jackpot.
1999, Martha Shirk, J. Lawrence Aber, Neil G. Bennett,Lives on the Line: American Families and the Struggle to Make Ends Meet[1]:I went into the Las Vegas Casino and played $20 in a nickel slot, and itjackpotted for $300.
2013,Amber Dermont,Damage Control: Stories[2]:She sought out the machines along the aisles, the ones most frequently used, stuffed with tokens, especially likely tojackpot.
- (transitive, crime, uncommon) Tofraudulentlyexploit anautomatic teller machine so that itdispensescash that has not beenwithdrawn from anaccount.
jackpot
- (playgroundgames) Aball game in which athrower calls out a point value and whether the ball must be caught "alive" (in the air) or "dead" (having touched the ground), and a group ofcatchers compete to catch the ball.
- Synonym:500
2019 February 6, Amanda Zhang, “Amanda Zhang: There's no shame in liking "Twilight"”, inThe Michigan Daily[3], Ann Arbor, M.I.:University of Michigan,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on20 July 2023:As a little girl, I was something of a tomboy. I playedjackpot in the mud at recess, and my Christmas wish lists consisted of baseball mitts and remote controlled cars.
Unknown. Criminal slang usage as "trouble, especially an arrest" attested 1902.
jackpot (pluraljackpots)
- (Western US) A difficult situation.
1904, C. A. Boose, “letter”, inThe Railway Conductor, volume XXI:and if you are not next to the ways and customs, the first thing you know you are in ajackpot so big four one spots would not be openers. I don't know what that last expression means, but I heard a fellow use it, and he was talking about a fellow that was in a very bad fix.
1941, Agnes Morley Cleaveland,No life for a lady, page284:"I'm in ajackpot." Sympathy shone from those friendly eyes at once. "It's shore too bad for a lady to be in ajackpot," he answered me earnestly.
2005, Cormac McCarthy,No Country for Old Men, page86:You're already in ajackpot, he said. I'm tryin to get you out of it.
- A jumble of felled timber.
1912 June 18, Supreme Court of Washington, “HENDRICKSON v. SIMPSON LOGGING CO.”, inThe Pacific reporter, page395:It frequently happens that trees fall across one another, forming what is known as ajackpot. A number of trees may fall in a singlejackpot. One of the tools with which appellant claims a bucker should be provided is an undercutter rigging. When trees are in ajackpot, the proper method of procedure is to first cut the lower tree, and then the upper one. This lessens the liability of an upper log rolling or falling upon the workman while he Is engaged in cutting the lower tree. The cut of the lower tree is ordinarily made by sawing it from the upper side, but, when its position produces a strain which pinches the saw, it is sawed from the under side by what is known as an undercut. To make an undercut, it is necessary to have some appliance to support the moving saw which is then operated teeth upward. The appliance which appellant contends Is ordinarily used is known as an undercutter rigging. Having no undercutter rigging, appellant requested respondent's foreman to provide one, complaining that his work in ajackpot of large trees without one was unsafe and dangerous.
jackpot m (pluraljackpots)
- jackpot (all senses)
FromEnglishjackpot.[1]
- IPA(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛkpot]
- Hyphenation:jack‧pot
- Rhymes:-ot
jackpot (pluraljackpotok)
- jackpot(a money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won)
Almost certainly fromEnglishjackpot
jackpot m (definite singularjackpoten,indefinite pluraljackpoter,definite pluraljackpotene)
- ajackpot
Almost certainly fromEnglishjackpot
jackpot m (definite singularjackpoten,indefinite pluraljackpotar,definite pluraljackpotane)
- ajackpot
Borrowed fromEnglishjackpot.
jackpot n (pluraljackpoturi)
- jackpot
