Jack
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Jack may refer to many different things:
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[edit] General
- Jack (name), originally a nickname for Jacob and John.
- Jack (mechanical), a mechanical or hydraulic device used to lift (such as an automobile jack).
- Jack (organology), a part of a harpsichords.
- Jack (connector), a receptacle for electrical connections.
- Jack plane, a medium sized plane (tool) for smoothing wood.
- JACK Audio Connection Kit, an open source computer sound server
- Jack traditionally refers to a sailor, as in Jack tar, or any other non-specific labourer, as in lumberjack and Jack of all trades.
[edit] Games and toys
- You Don't Know Jack, a series of trivia computer games that were created by Bo Dietrick, the founder of the gaming company 'Faggio'.
- Jack (playing card), the lowest face card in a deck of playing cards.
- Jack-in-the-box, a children's toy that was later found to be used as a dildo.
- Jacks, playground game for children.
- The target ball in games such as bowls, bocce or pétanque, also known as a kitty.
- Jack-o'-lantern, a traditional symbol for Halloween.
[edit] As a verb
- Jacking, a form of dance popular in the late 1980s.
- Jacking off, a euphemism for masturbation.
- A slang term derived from the word hijack, meaning "to take".
- Commonly used in sports when the ball is thrown or hit a long distance, such as a home run or a three-point field goal.
[edit] People
- Jack Black a well-known movie actor and musician
- Jack Holden, an English long-distance runner
- Jack Kerouac, famed author of On The Road who coined the term Beat Generation
- Jack Nicholson, Academy Award-winning American actor
- Jack the Ripper, a Victorian era serial killer
- Jack the Stripper, Serial killer that stripped victims
- Jack Robichaux, a 19th century serial rapist in New Orleans
- Spring Heeled Jack, a legendary figure of the Victorian era
[edit] Fictional characters
[edit] Movies
- Jack Dawson, the main character from the 1997 film Titanic.
- Jack Skellington, the main character from the family movie The Nightmare Before Christmas.
- Jack Sparrow, a fictional pirate from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and its sequels.
- Jack the monkey, a fictional monkey also from the movie (named after Jack Sparrow) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and its sequels.
- Jack Traven, the main character from the action movie Speed.
- Jack Twist, one of the main characters in the film Brokeback Mountain
- Jack Powell, the main character in the movie "Jack"
[edit] Television
- Jack Bauer, the main character of 24.
- Jack Bristow, a main character from Alias.
- Captain Jack Harkness, a main character from Torchwood.
- Jack O'Neill, from Stargate SG-1.
- Jack Shephard, the male lead character on Lost.
- Jack the Front Loader, from Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.
- Jack Spicer, the main villain of the animated TV show Xiaolin Showdown.
- Samurai Jack, an animated cartoon series produced for Cartoon Network, whose lead character is a samurai referred to as 'Jack' (true name unknown).
[edit] Literature
- The antagonist in William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies.
[edit] Fiction
- Jack and the Beanstalk, a classical story.
[edit] Movies
- Jack (film), a film directed by Francis Ford Coppola starring Robin Williams.
- Carry On Jack, a 1963 film.
[edit] Comics
- Jack (comic), a web comic.
- Jack-in-the-Box, a fictional character from the Astro City comic book series.
- Jack of the Tales, the legendary Jack of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' and other stories, featured in the comic Fables and in his own spin-off Jack of Fables.
[edit] Music and radio
- Jack (band), a now-defunct British indie band signed to Too Pure.
- Jack FM, a radio format in Canada and the United States.
- Happy Jack, a song from the British band The Who.
- Jack is a song by Tom Petty on his 2006 album, "Highway Companion"
[edit] Brands
- Jack, the logo of Cingular Wireless.
- Jack Daniel's, a brand of whiskey.
- Jack in the Box, a chain of restaurants, and its mascot Jack.
- Jack, a device by WideRay for delivering content to mobile phones.
- JACK (originally stood for Java Agent Common Kernel), a software intelligent agent development environment published by Agent-Oriented Software
[edit] Flags
- A type of maritime flag flown from the bow of a ship.
- Union Jack, a common term for the Union Flag (the national flag of the United Kingdom).
- Union Jack, the flag flown by the United States Navy from the prow of their ships.
[edit] Species
- Jackfruit, Artocarpus heterophyllus, a species of tree native to the East Indies.
- Several fishes:
- freshwater pike, green pike or pickerel
- large California rockfish
- the Carangidae family
- the Coho salmon
- "Jackass" (donkey), an animal in the horse family.
- Jackass penguin (after its donkey-like braying call), Spheniscus demersus, a.k.a. African Penguin or Blackfooted Penguin.
- Jack (tree), Mangifera caesia, a relative of the mango.
[edit] Other uses
- Jack of plate, a type of armor consisting of many small plates sewn into a garment.
- Jack (Tekken), a series of robots in the Tekken series.
- Jack, the main character of Square's 3-D WorldRunner and JJ.
- Monterey Jack, a type of cheese.
- Money, as in, "He's pulling down some serious jack."
- Jackeen, a mildly pejorative term for someone from Dublin, Ireland.
- Jack 2, a deepwater oil well platform in the Gulf of Mexico
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