Jack

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Contents 1 General 2 Games and toys 3 As a verb 4 People 5 Fictional characters 5.1 Movies 5.2 Television 5.3 Literature 6 Fictions 7 Movies 8 Comics 9 Music and radio 10 Brands 11 Flags 12 Species 13 Other uses

Jack may refer to:

[edit] General

• Jack (name), originally a nickname for Jacob and John.
• Jack (mechanical), a mechanical or hydraulic device used to lift (such as an automobile jack).
• Jack (connector), a receptacle for electrical connections.
• Jack plane, a medium sized plane (tool) for smoothing wood.
• JACK Audio Connection Kit, an open source 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.

[edit] Games and toys

• You Don't Know Jack, a series of trivia computer games.
• 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.
• The target ball in games such as bowls, bocce or pétanque, also known as a kitty.
• Jack-o'-lantern, a traditional symbol for Halloween.

[edit] 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.

[edit] People

• Jack Black a well-known movie actor and musician.
• Jack Kerouac, famed author of On The Road who coined the term Beat Generation.
• Jack Nicholson, Academy Award-winning American actor
• Jack the Ripper, a Victorian era serial killer.
• Jack Robichaux, a 19th century serial rapist in New Orleans.
• Spring Heeled Jack, a legendary figure of the Victorian era.

[edit] Fictional characters

[edit] Movies

• Jack Dawson, the main character from the 1997 film Titanic.
• Jack Skellington, the main character from the family movie The Nightmare Before Christmas.
• Jack Sparrow, a fictional pirate from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and its sequels.
• Jack the monkey, a fictional monkey also from the movie (named after Jack Sparrow) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and its sequels.
• Jack Traven, the main character from the action movie Speed.
• Jack Twist, one of the main characters in the film Brokeback Mountain

[edit] Television

• Jack Bauer, the main character of 24.
• Jack Bristow, a main character from Alias.
• Captain Jack Harkness, the main character of Torchwood
• Jack O'Neill, the main character of Stargate SG-1.
• Jack Shephard, the male lead character on Lost.
• Jack the Front Loader, from the Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends TV series.
• Jack Spicer, the main villain of the animated TV show Xiaolin Showdown.
• Samurai Jack, an animated cartoon series produced for Cartoon Network, whose lead character is a samurai referred to as 'Jack' (true name unknown).

[edit] Literature

• The antagonist in William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies.

[edit] Fictions

Jack and the Beanstalk, a classical story

[edit] Movies

• Jack (film), a film directed by Francis Ford Coppola starring Robin Williams.
• Carry On Jack, a 1963 film.

[edit] Comics

• Jack (comic), a web comic.
• 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.

[edit] Music and radio

• Jack (band), a now-defunct British indie band signed to Too Pure.
• Jack FM is a radio format in Canada and the United States.
• Happy Jack, a song from the British band The Who.

[edit] Brands

• Jack, the logo of Cingular Wireless.
• Jack Daniel's, a brand of whiskey.
• Jack in the Box, a chain of restaurants, and its mascot Jack.
• 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

[edit] Flags

• A type of 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.

[edit] Species

• Jackfruit, Artocarpus heterophyllus, a species of tree native to the East Indies.
• Several fishes:
  • freshwater pike, green pike or pickerel
  • large California rockfish
  • the Carangidae family
  • the Coho salmon
• "Jackass" (donkey), 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.

[edit] Other uses

• 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.
• Jack, the main character of Square's 3-D WorldRunner and JJ.
• Monterey Jack, a type of cheese.
• Money, as in, "He's pulling down some serious jack."
• Jackeen, a mildly pejorative term for someone from Dublin, Ireland.
• Jack 2, a deepwater oil well platform in the Gulf of Mexico