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lancejack

lancejack is the alternative form 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

Forms of lancejack

plurallancejacks

Questions about lancejack

What is lancejack the alternative form of?
Lancejack is the alternative form of lance-jack.

Words near lancejack in the dictionary

  1. lancefishes
  2. lancegay
  3. lancegays
  4. lancehead
  5. lanceheads
  6. lancejack
  7. lancejacks
  8. lanceless
  9. lancelet
  10. lanceletlike
  11. lancelets

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