Jack

Jack may refer to many different things:

General

• Jack (name), originally a nickname for John (Hebrew) "the Lord is gracious", or Jacques, the French form of Jacob (Hebrew) "he who supplants." Jacob (in Latin and French) and James (Middle English), from Hebrew "[God] has protected",
• Jack (device), a device used to lift heavy objects.
• Jack (organology), a part of a harpsichord.
• A jackknife, or pocket knife.
• Jack (connector), a receptacle for electrical connections.
  • Jack plug, a common audio connector.
• Jack plane, a medium sized plane (tool) for smoothing wood.
• JACK Audio Connection Kit, a free/open source software 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.
• Jack (human modeling), a human modeling and simulation system

Games and toys

• Jack the main character of Square's 3-D WorldRunner and JJ.
• You Don't Know Jack, a series of trivia computer games that were created by Bo Dietrick, the founder of the gaming company Jellyvision.
• Jack (playing card), the lowest face card in a deck of playing cards.
• Jack-in-the-box, a children's toy.
• Jacks, playground game for children.
• Jackpot, the top prize in a lottery.
• The target ball in games such as bowls, bocce or pétanque, also known as a kitty.
• Jack-o'-lantern, a traditional pumpkin symbol for Halloween.
• Jumping Jack, an exercise also known as Star Jumps.
• Blackjack, a card game also known as Twenty-One.
• [[Jack in the box], a fun game using a box and a puppet on a spring that hops up when the music stops playing. Also a food corp.

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.
• Carjack, theft of a motor vehicle

People

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• Jack Robichaux (19th Century), a serial rapist in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
• Jack Powell (1874–1944), former American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Jack Warner Schaefer (1907–1991), an American author in the Western genre
• Jack Holden (athlete) (1907–2004), English long-distance runner
• Jack Palance (1919–2006), an Oscar-winning American film actor
• Jack Lord (1920–1998), an American television, film, and Broadway actor; best known as the star of Hawaii Five-O
• Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), American novelist, writer, poet, and artist; a founding member of the Beat Generation
• Jack Chick (born 1924), American comic-book artist and publisher; owner of Chick Publications
• Jack Nicholson (born 1937), Academy Award-winning American actor
• Jack Layton (born 1950), Canadian politician
• Jack Black (born 1969), American actor, comedian and musician; a member of the Frat Pack
• Jack Osbourne (born 1985), son of famous rock star Ozzy Osbourne
• Jack Tweed (born 1987), appeared on the UK Celebrity Big Brother 2007 television series

Nicknames and Aliases

• John F. Kennedy ("Jack Kennedy"; 1917–1963), 35th President of the United States, whose term ended with his assassination
• Jack the Ripper (19th Century), alias given to an unidentified serial killer of Victorian England
• Spring Heeled Jack (19th Century), a legendary figure of Victorian England
• Jack the Stripper (mid-20th Century), nickname given to an unknown serial killer of London, England who stripped victims

Fictional characters

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Movies

• Jack Aubrey, captain of HMS Sophie in the novel Master and Commander
• Jack Dawson, the main character from the 1997 film Titanic
• Jack Charles Powell, main character of the 1996 film Jack
• Jack Skellington, the main character from the 1993 American film The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Jack Sparrow, a fictional pirate from the Pirates of the Caribbean Disney franchise (films, video games, etc.)
  • Jack the monkey, a fictional monkey named after Jack Sparrow, appearing in the Pirates of the Caribbean Disney franchise
• Jack Traven, the main character from the American action movie Speed
• Jack Twist, one of the main characters in the short story Brokeback Mountain and its film adaptation

Television

American Television

• Jack Bauer, the main character of the series 24
• Jack Bristow, a main character from the series Alias
• Jack Donaghy, a main character on the series 30 Rock
• Jack McFarland, a main character from the series Will & Grace
• Jack Gallo, a main character from the series Just Shoot Me!
• Jack O'Lantern, a villain character in Billy and Mandy's Jacked Up Halloween, a holiday episode of the animated series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
• Jack O'Neill, from the series Stargate SG-1
• Jack Shephard, the male lead character on the series Lost
• Jack Spicer (Xiaolin Showdown), the main villain of the animated series Xiaolin Showdown
• Jack Tripper, character from the series Three's Company and Three's a Crowd

British Television

• Jack the Front Loader, a character from the British children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
• Captain Jack Harkness, a character in the British television series Doctor Who and Torchwood

Literature

• Jack Aubrey (Lucky Jack), Captain of HMS Sophie in Master and Commander.
• Jack Frost, a character of old tales; personification of winter's onset.
• Jack Merridew, the antagonist in William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies.
• Jack McGurk, the 9 year old hero of a series of detective mysteries for children by Edmund Wallace Hildick.
• Jack and the Beanstalk, a classical story
• Jack Ryan, the protagonist in several Tom Clancy novels.

Comics

• Jack (webcomic), a furry webcomic by David Hopkins.
• 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.
• Jack Colno, the main character from the Jack Stories comic series.

Nursery rhymes

• Jack and Jill (song), a nursery rhyme
• Jack Be Nimble, a nursery rhyme
• Jack Sprat, a nursery rhyme
• Little Jack Horner, a nursery rhyme

Film and Television

not including characters

• Jack (film), a 1996 American film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Robin Williams
• Carry On Jack, a 1963 British film, part of the Carry On film series
• Jack the Bear, a 1993 American film starring Danny De Vito
• Samurai Jack, an Emmy-award winning American animated cartoon series

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.
• Jack, a song by Tom Petty on his 2006 album Highway Companion
• Jack, a song by American band Iced Earth on the album Horror Show
• "Happy Jack", a song from the British band The Who.
• "Hit the Road Jack", a song recorded by Ray Charles
• "Just Jack", a British Garage/Hip-Hop musician
• "Captain Jack", Billy Joel 1973
• "Mr. Jack (song)", System of a Down 2002
• "Jumpin' Jack Flash", The Rolling Stones 1968

Brands

• Jack, the logo of Cingular Wireless.
• 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
• Jack, the previous name of JavaCC, a parser generator for the Java programming language.
• Jack Daniel's, a brand of whiskey.
• Jack in the Box, a chain of restaurants, and its mascot Jack.
• CrackerJacks a caramel popcorn snack food or a uniform for U.S Navy seamen

Flags

• Jack (flag), a 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.

Animals & plants

• Jackfruit, Artocarpus heterophyllus, a species of tree native to the East Indies.
• Several fish:
  • freshwater pike, green pike or pickerel
  • large California rockfish
  • the Carangidae family
  • the Coho salmon
• Jackass, a donkey, which is 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.
• Jack rabbit, Lepus, a type of hare
• Jack Russell, Terrier
• Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon, Tragopogon pratensis, a plant in the Asteraceae family

Slang

• Jack (slang), a recent reference towards Australians, meaning 'Just Another Convict's Kid', the term was derived by an English family who moved to Australia as a counter reference to the phrase pom
• Jackeen, a mildly pejorative term for someone from Dublin, Ireland
• Jack, a slang word for people from the city of Swansea, Wales.
• Jack, slang word for "nothing"
• Money, as in, "He's pulling down some serious jack"
• A slang word for 'steal', as in "He's jacked my car"; "Are you going to jack it?"

Other uses

• Carjacker, a vehicle thief
• 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
• Monterey Jack, a type of cheese
• Jack 2, a deepwater oil well platform in the Gulf of Mexico