Noun: jackpot
| Singular | jackpot |
| Plural | jackpots |
Sample Sentences
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If no player picks all six numbers correctly, the jackpot is rolled over and added to the next week's jackpot; several weeks of rollovers can build up jackpots up to $350 million or more. [2000, Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Choices, values, and frames:]
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a juniper jackpot
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As a little girl, I was something of a tomboy. I played jackpot in the mud at recess, and my Christmas wish lists consisted of baseball mitts and remote controlled cars. [2019 February 6, Amanda Zhang, “Amanda Zhang: There's no shame in liking "Twilight"”, in The Michigan Daily, Ann Arbor, M.I.: University of Michigan, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2023:]
Nouns inflected like jackpot
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested as jack-pot (“big prize”), 1944; from sense "slot machine" (1932), from obsolete poker sense (1881) "antes that begin when no player has a pair of jacks or better"; from jack (“playing card”) + pot.
Verbs referencing "jackpot"
Hungarian Nouns
jackpot, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
jackpot, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
jackpot, Romanian Nouns
jackpot, German Nouns
Jackpot, Swedish Nouns
jackpott, Russian Nouns
джекпот.