jack (in the box) n.
venereal disease.
Sowers of Wind 3: Penicillin’ll take care of that. They reckon they just pump you full of it, and bingo! No more jack! | ||
Dict. of Rhy. Sl. | ||
Zimmer’s Essay 56: No worries about jack in this one. A virgin, no worries. | ||
Crank back on Roller 199: Ah, the poor bastard got a jack in Tassie before we’d been in camp a month . . . Fuck a dog on a chain, the bloody fool [AND]. | ||
DSUE (8th edn) 607: since ca. 1870. | ||
Doing Time 191: jack: [...] ‘the jack’ refers to a venereal disease. | ||
Rifleman 73: Got malaria, beri-beri, malnutrition and probably a dose of jack [AND]. | ||
What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] I got the jack years ago and had to go to the VD clinic. | ‘Who’s Jack of Robbo?’ in||
Cockney Rabbit. | ||
Dirty Cockney Rhy. Sl. |