jumping jack

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   plaything consisting of a toy figure with movable joints that can be made to dance by pulling strings

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Questions about jumping jack

What does jumping jack mean?

jumping jack means "plaything consisting of a toy figure with movable joints that can be made to dance by pulling strings".

Is jumping jack a common word?

jumping jack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.