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 — 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
