black jack
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Variant of blackjack
blackjack
definition
black·jack (blak′jak′)
noun
- a large beer mug, formerly made of leather coated with tar
- black flag
- ☆ a small, leather-covered bludgeon with a flexible handle
- ☆ a SE U.S. scrub oak (Quercus marilandica) with fan-shaped leaves
- ☆
- a gambling game at cards in which any player wins who gets cards totaling twenty-one points or less while the dealer gets either a smaller total or a total exceeding twenty-one points
- a combination of an ace and a face card or ten, equaling 21 points in this game
- sphalerite, esp. a dark variety also written black jack
Etymology: see jack
transitive verb
- to hit with a blackjack
- to force (a person) to do something by threatening, as if with a blackjack
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