Synonyms of the word

jack

• n. A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, e.g. screw jack, scissor jack,…
• n. A man or men in general.
• n. A male animal.
• n. A male ass.
• n. (card games) A playing card with the letter "J" and the image of a knave or prince on it, the eleventh…
• n. (cricket) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings, derived from the playing card.
• n. (archaic) A knave (a servant or later, a deceitful man).
• n. Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
• n. A surface-mounted connector for electrical, especially telecommunications, equipment.
• n. (sports) A target ball in bowls, etc; a jack-ball.
• n. (games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
• n. (colloquial, euphemistic) Nothing, jack shit.
• n. (nautical) A small flag at the bow of a ship.
• n. (nautical) A naval ensign flag flown from the main mast, mizzen mast, or the aft-most major mast of (especially)…
• n. (military) A coarse and cheap medieval coat of defense, especially one made of leather.
• n. A penny with a head on both sides, used for cheating.
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. (slang, Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
• n. The freshwater pike, green pike or pickerel.
• n. A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
• n. Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
• n. (obsolete, nautical) A sailor, a jacktar.
• n. (obsolete) A pitcher or can of waxed leather, supposed to resemble a jackboot; a black-jack.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A drinking measure holding half a pint or, sometimes, a quarter of a pint.
• n. A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine.
• n. Female ended electrical connector (see Electrical connector).
• n. Electrical connector in a fixed position (see Gender of connectors and fasteners).
• v. (transitive) To use a jack.
• v. (transitive) To raise or increase.
• v. To produce by freeze distillation; to distil (an alcoholic beverage) by freezing it and removing the ice…
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To steal something, typically an automobile. Shortened form of carjacking.
• v. (intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
• n. (slang, baseball) A home run.
• v. (transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field,…
• n. A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
• n. A jackfruit tree.

ass

• n. Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus africanus, often domesticated and…
• n. (slang) A stupid person.
• n. (vulgar, slang) Buttocks.
• n. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sex.
• n. (vulgar, slang) Anus.
• n. (slang) Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.
• n. (slang) Used after an adjective to indicate extremes or excessiveness.
• n. (slang) One's self or person, chiefly their body.

ball

• n. A solid or hollow sphere, or part thereof.
• n. (sports) The use of a round or ellipsoidal object.
• n. (mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
• n. (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used…
• n. (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
• v. (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
• v. (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather…
• v. (slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
• v. (nonstandard, slang) To play basketball.
• interj. (Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This…
• n. A formal dance.
• n. (informal) A very enjoyable time.

carangid

• n. (zoology) Any fish belonging to the family Carangidae.

crewman

• n. A member of a crew, especially the crew of a ship.
• n. (Canada, military) The military trade of armoured crewman, abbreviated.

diddly

• n. (informal) A small amount of no worth.
• interj. A written representation of a trill sound.
• n. (slang, sometimes childish) penis.

diddly-squat

• n. (US slang, often humorous) Nothing; nothing whatsoever.

diddlysquat

• n. Alternative form of diddly-squat.

doodly-squat

• n. Alternative form of diddly-squat (nothing whatsoever).

elevate

• v. (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
• v. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
• v. (transitive) To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
• v. (transitive) To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.
• v. (transitive) To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.
• v. (dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
• adj. (obsolete) Elevated; raised aloft.

flag

• n. A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
• n. An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
• n. (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or…
• n. (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
• n. (construction) Abbreviation of flagstone: a construction material used for paving, flooring, roofing or…
• n. The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
• n. (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically…
• n. (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise…
• n. (Britain) An abbreviation for capture the flag.
• n. (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally,…
• n. (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space…
• v. To furnish or deck out with flags.
• v. To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
• v. (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
• v. To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
• v. (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
• v. (computing) To signal (an event).
• v. (computing) To set a program variable to true.
• v. To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
• v. (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
• v. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
• v. To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
• v. To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
• n. Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
• n. (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
• n. A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
• n. (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
• v. To lay down flagstones.
• n. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
• n. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
• n. The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
• n. (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value.

gob

• n. (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
• n. (countable, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
• n. (US, military, slang) A sailor.
• n. (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
• n. (US, regional) A whoopee pie.
• v. To gather into a lump.
• v. To spit, especially to spit phlegm.

hunt

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
• v. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
• v. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
• v. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
• v. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
• v. (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
• v. (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor…
• n. The act of hunting.
• n. A hunting expedition.
• n. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the…

jackass

• n. A male donkey.
• n. A foolish or stupid person.
• n. An inappropriately rude or obnoxious person.
• p.n. (poker slang) A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.
• v. (rare) To behave very obnoxiously.

jackfruit

• n. A tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the Moraceae family, which produces edible fruit.
• n. The large fruit from this tree.

jacklight

• n. A spotlight or lamp mounted on a car.

jackstones

• n. plural of jackstone.

knave

• n. (archaic) A boy; especially, a boy servant.
• n. (archaic) Any male servant; a menial.
• n. A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain.
• n. (card games) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.

laborer

• n. One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.

labourer

• n. British spelling standard spelling of laborer.

lift

• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
• v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
• v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
• v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
• v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
• v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
• v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
• v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
• v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
• n. An act of lifting or raising.
• n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
• n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
• n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
• n. (historical slang) A thief.
• n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
• n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
• n. an improvement in mood.
• n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
• n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
• n. A lift gate.
• n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
• n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
• n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
• n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

mariner

• n. A sailor.

raise

• v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
• v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
• v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
• v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
• v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
• n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
• n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
• n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
• n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
• n. A cairn or pile of stones.

run

• v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
• v. (fluids) To flow.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
• v. (social) To carry out an activity.
• v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
• v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
• v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
• v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
• v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
• v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
• v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
• v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
• v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
• v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
• v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
• v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
• v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
• v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
• v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
• v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
• v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
• v. To have growth or development.
• v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
• v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
• v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
• n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
• n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
• n. A pleasure trip.
• n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
• n. Migration (of fish).
• n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
• n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
• n. A (regular) trip or route.
• n. The route taken while running or skiing.
• n. The distance sailed by a ship.
• n. A voyage.
• n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
• n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
• n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
• n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
• n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
• n. A trial.
• n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
• n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
• n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
• n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
• n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
• n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
• n. Any sudden large demand for something.
• n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
• n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
• n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
• n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
• n. (cricket) A point scored.
• n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
• n. Unrestricted use of.
• n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
• n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
• n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
• n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
• n. A pair or set of millstones.
• n. (video games) A playthrough.
• n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
• n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
• n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
• n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
• adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
• adj. Cast in a mould.
• adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
• adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

sailor

• n. One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management…
• n. a person who sails sailing boats as a sport or recreation; see also yachtsman.

seafarer

• n. A sailor or mariner.
• n. One who travels by sea.

seaman

• n. A mariner or sailor, one who mans a ship. Opposed to landman or landsman.
• n. (Britain, Navy) The lowest ranking in the Navy, below Able Seaman.
• n. (US, Navy) An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking below petty…
• n. A merman; the male of the mermaid.

shit

• n. (countable, uncountable, colloquial, vulgar) Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
• n. (countable, colloquial, vulgar, in the plural, definite) (the shits) diarrhea.
• n. (countable, colloquial, vulgar) An instance of defecation.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Rubbish; worthless matter.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Stuff, things.
• n. (uncountable, colloquial, vulgar, definite) (the shit) The best of its kind.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Nonsense; bullshit.
• n. (countable, vulgar, colloquial) A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) (in negations) Anything.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) A problem or difficult situation.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) A strong rebuke.
• n. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) any recreational drug, usually cannabis.
• adj. (vulgar, colloquial) Of poor quality; worthless.
• adj. (vulgar, colloquial) Nasty; despicable.
• adv. (vulgar, colloquial, sometimes by extension) Resembling the color of feces.
• v. (intransitive, vulgar, colloquial) To defecate.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial) To excrete (something) through the anus.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial) To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial, Australia) To annoy.
• interj. (vulgar) Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered…
• interj. (vulgar) To show displeasure or surprise.

squat

• adj. Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
• adj. Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
• n. A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
• n. (weightlifting) A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then…
• n. A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
• n. A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.
• n. (slang) Something of no value; nothing.
• n. (obsolete) A sudden or crushing fall.
• n. (mining) A small vein of ore.
• n. A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
• v. To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
• v. (weightlifting) To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across…
• v. To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
• v. To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or…
• v. (dated) To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
• n. The angel shark (genus Squatina).

tar

• n. (uncountable) A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from…
• n. Coal tar.
• n. (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
• n. (slang, dated) A sailor, because of their tarpaulin clothes. Also Jack Tar.
• n. Black tar, a form of heroin.
• v. (transitive) To coat with tar.
• v. (transitive) To besmirch.
• n. (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix.
• n. (computing) A file produced by such a program.
• v. (computing, transitive) To create a tar archive.
• n. (music) A Persian long-necked, waisted instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle…
• n. (music) A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.

tool

• n. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
• n. Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
• n. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
• n. (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
• n. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
• n. (slang) Penis.
• n. (by extension, slang, pejorative) An obnoxious or uptight person.
• v. (transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
• v. (transitive) To equip with tools.
• v. (transitive) To work very hard.
• v. (transitive, slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to…
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
• v. (transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To drive (a coach, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

workingman

• n. A man who works in exchange for payment, especially one that does manual labour.

workman

• n. A man who labours for wages.
• n. An artisan or craftsman.