JACKKNIFE
29
Scrabble
33
WWF
J(8) A(1) C(3) K(5) K(5) N(1) I(1) F(4) E(1)
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Definition
noun
- A compact folding knife.“He kept a jack-knife in his pocket for various tasks.”
- The front-dive pike, in which the body folds and unfolds.“It took me hundreds of dives to master even the simple jackknife”
- A semi-trailer truck accident in which the vehicle mimics the closing of a jack-knife.“I have seen several jack-knives along that dangerous stretch of road.”
verb
- To fold in the middle, as a jackknife does.“The cat jackknifed in the air and landed gracefully on its feet.”
- To cause a semi-trailer truck to fold like a jackknife in a traffic accident.“Before I knew what was happening, I'd jack-knifed the truck.”
noun
- A resampling method that applies estimators to all subsamples that each omit a single different group (possibly of a single datapoint) of the original sample to provide a sample distribution of the estimate.
Source: Wiktionary
Hooks
Back hooks: JACKKNIFE-D JACKKNIFE-S
