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jackies

jackies is the plural of jacky.

Meaning of jacky

Noun

jacky (countable and uncountable, plural jackies)

  1. (countable, derogatory, slang) A sailor.
    • Up and down that street on a bright Saturday afternoon may be seen our Middle Western jackies chumming with the British sailors and Tommies, or flirting with the Irish girls, or gazing through the little panes of the show-windows […]1918, Winston Churchill, A Traveller in War-Time
  2. (UK, archaic, dialectal) English gin.
    • I've snuff, and tobacky, / And excellent jacky.1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC

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Noun capitalized: Jackies

Jackies

  1. (plural) plural of Jacky

Questions about jackies

What is jackies the plural of?
Jackies is the plural of jacky.
What part of speech is jackies?
Jackies is a noun.

Words near jackies in the dictionary

  1. jackholes
  2. Jacki
  3. Jackie
  4. Jackie Howe
  5. Jackie Howes
  6. jackies
  7. jackin'
  8. jacking
  9. jacking around
  10. jacking gear
  11. jacking gears

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