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Jackster

Jackster is the diminutive of Jack.

Meaning of Jack

Proper noun

Jack (countable and uncountable, plural Jacks)

  1. A unisex given name derived from a pet form of the name John. Occasionally a diminutive of other given names such as Jackson, Jacob, Jacqueline or Jonathan.
    • Since every Jack became a gentleman
    • there's many a gentle person made a Jack.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. A surname.
  3. (colloquial) Jack Daniel's, a brand of Tennessee whiskey.
    • Before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack.2009, “Tik Tok”, performed by Ke$ha (Kesha Rose Sebert)
  4. An unincorporated community in Coffee County, Alabama, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Dent County, Missouri, United States.

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Origin of Jackster

From Jack + -ster.

Questions about Jackster

What is Jackster the diminutive of?
Jackster is the diminutive of Jack.

Words near Jackster in the dictionary

  1. jackstaves
  2. jackstay
  3. jackstay search
  4. jackstay searches
  5. jackstays
  6. Jackster
  7. jackstone
  8. jackstone calculi
  9. jackstone calculus
  10. jackstones
  11. jackstraw

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jackster (page history and authors); Jack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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