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lance-jacks

lance-jacks is the plural of lance-jack.

Meaning of lance-jack

Noun

lance-jack (plural lance-jacks)

  1. (UK, slang) A lance-corporal or lance-bombadier.
    • They made him a lance-jack; but it was only because they wanted somebody tall at the end of the front rank to fix bayonets by.1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 44

Questions about lance-jacks

What is lance-jacks the plural of?
Lance-jacks is the plural of lance-jack.

Words near lance-jacks in the dictionary

  1. lance skinks
  2. lance snake
  3. lance-corporal
  4. lance-corporals
  5. lance-jack
  6. lance-jacks
  7. lance-knight
  8. lance-knights
  9. lance-ovate
  10. lanceable
  11. lancebill

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