jacobs

jā′kəbz

Proper noun

An English patronymic surname derived from Jacob.

Noun

(UK, slang) Testicles (sometimes spelt Jacob's).

Origin

Cockney rhyming slang - Jacob's Cream Crackers (a brand of crackers) = knackers

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jacobs - Medical Definition

Aletta 1854–1929

Dutch physician who was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the Netherlands and opened a birth control clinic in Amsterdam in 1882.

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Jacobs, Eeenigen tijd onder de Baliers (Batavia, 1883); H.
P. 157 foil.), as well as Wellhausen, and since then by Jacobs and Zapletal (Der Totemismus u.
Jacobs, Jewish Encyclopedia, iv.
Jacobs, Studies in Biblical Archaeology (London, 1895).
Jacobs, of Bentonville, Arkansas.

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