- jackpot
- See: hit the jackpot
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Jackpot — may be:* Grand prize in gambling * Jackpots, Gardena jackpots Jacks to open draw poker rule * Jackpot, Nevada, town * Jackpot, military Operation Jackpot Fictional characters * Jackpot (Transformers) * Jackpot (comics) Other * The Jackpot , a… … Wikipedia
jackpot — [ (d)ʒakpɔt ] n. m. • v. 1970; mot angl., de jack « valet » et pot « ensemble de mises » ♦ Combinaison de figures qui permet de gagner la monnaie accumulée dans certaines machines à sous. Par ext. La machine. ♢ Fig. Gros profit rapide. ⇒ pactole … Encyclopédie Universelle
jackpot — jack‧pot [ˈdʒækpɒt ǁ pɑːt] noun [countable] 1. a large prize you can win in a lottery (= a game of chance in which people buy tickets with numbers on ) : • this week s £3 million jackpot in the National Lottery 2. a large amount of profit: • … Financial and business terms
Jackpot — Sm Einsatz, der sich ständig vergrößert, Hauptgewinn per. Wortschatz fach. (20. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus ne. jackpot, zu ne. jack Bube (im Kartenspiel) und ne. pot Einsatz, Topf (im Lotto usw.). Die Bezeichnung stammt aus dem Pokerspiel, in… … Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache
Jackpot — Jackpot, n. 1. Same as {jack pot}. See under {jack}. [PJC] 2. Any larger than usual gambling prize formed by the accumulation of unwon bets. [PJC] 3. The highest gambling prize awarded in a gambling game in which smaller prizes are also awarded,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Jackpot — Données clés Titre original What Happens in Vegas Réalisation Tom Vaughan Scénario Dana Fox Acteurs principaux Cameron Diaz Ashton Kutcher Sociétés de production Mosaic Media Grou … Wikipédia en Français
jackpot — ► NOUN ▪ a large cash prize in a game or lottery. ● hit the jackpot Cf. ↑hit the jackpot ORIGIN originally used in a form of poker, where the pot accumulated until a player could open the bidding with two jacks or better … English terms dictionary
jackpot — ☆ jackpot [jak′pät΄ ] n. [ JACK, n. 13a + POT3] 1. a pot in a poker game made up of accumulated stakes, which can be played for only when some player has a pair of jacks or better with which to open 2. any cumulative stakes or highest prize, as… … English World dictionary
jackpot — index prize Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
jackpot — JACKPÓT [JÉCPOT] s. n. potul cel mare, la jocurile mecanice; (fig.) mare lovitură. (< engl. jack pot) Trimis de raduborza, 06.05.2008. Sursa: MDN … Dicționar Român
jackpot — (n.) also jack pot, big prize, 1944, from slot machine sense (1932), from obsolete poker sense (1881) of antes that begin when no player has a pair of jacks or better; from JACK (Cf. jack) (n.) in the card playing sense + POT (Cf. pot) (1).… … Etymology dictionary
