jacky
See also: Jacky
English
Noun
jacky (plural jackies)
- (slang, derogatory) A sailor.
- Winston Churchill, A Traveller in Wartime
- 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 […]
- Winston Churchill, A Traveller in Wartime
- (Britain, dialectal, archaic) English gin.
- W. S. Gilbert, H.M.S. Pinafore
- I've snuff, and tobacky, / And excellent jacky.
- W. S. Gilbert, H.M.S. Pinafore
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