slapjack
slapjack Lexical Profile
slapjack Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A simple children's card game in which players take turns dealing cards face up into a central pile and race to slap the pile with their hand whenever a jack appears, winning all the cards beneath it.
"The children spent the rainy afternoon playing slapjack at the kitchen table."
American A pancake or griddlecake made from batter cooked on a hot greased surface.
"My grandfather used to cook a tall stack of buckwheat slapjacks every Sunday morning."
American A small, flat, flexible leather-covered club weighted with lead in the head, carried as a hand weapon.
"The detective examined the vintage leather slapjack displayed in the police museum."
• Rhymes for slapjack
Word Origin & Etymology
First recorded in the late 18th century in the culinary sense and the 19th century as a card game, formed as a compound of 'slap' and 'jack' (comparing the flat cake or club to familiar everyday objects or referencing the Jack playing card).