jackpot
Meanings
Plural: jackpots
Noun
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- any outstanding award
- A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
- A large cash prize or money.
- An unexpected windfall or reward.
- A concentration of surface wood or fuel.
- A large accumulated point bonus, originally awarded after a long set of actions but now often easily available in multiball modes.
- A difficult situation.
- A jumble of felled timber.
Verb
- Of a slot machine, to issue a jackpot.
- To fraudulently exploit an automatic teller machine so that it dispenses cash that has not been withdrawn from an account.
Name
- A ball game in which a thrower calls out a point value and whether the ball must be caught "alive" (in the air) or "dead" (having touched the ground), and a group of catchers compete to catch the ball.
Origin / Etymology
Attested as jack-pot (“big prize”), 1944; from sense "slot machine" (1932), from obsolete poker sense (1881) "antes that begin when no player has a pair of jacks or better"; from jack (“playing card”) + pot.
Scrabble Score: 22
jackpot is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordjackpot is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
jackpot is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 26
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