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black·jack  (bl  k  j k  ) KEY NOUN:
- A leather-covered bludgeon with a short, flexible shaft or strap, used as a hand weapon.
- The blackjack oak.
- Games A card game in which the object is to accumulate cards with a higher count than that of the dealer but not exceeding 21.
Also called
twenty-one, vingt-et-un.
- Sphalerite.
TRANSITIVE VERB: black·jacked, black·jack·ing, black·jacks
- To hit or beat with a leather-covered bludgeon.
- To coerce by threats.
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