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jackboy (複数形 jackboys)

A street thug who is part of a gang of thieves.
- 2011, Hector Stone, Trapstarz, page 29:
  We ducked and dodged law, and jackboys, only to hand our hard earned cash over to another hustler; a hustler greater than us.
- 2012, Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch:
  Ordell asked one of his jackboys to get him a car with keys in it and leave it in the Ocean Mall parking lot over by the beach. The jackboy asked him what kind of car he wanted. Ordell said, 'One has a big trunk with a shotgun in it.' He liked jackboys because they were crazy. They made their living ripping off street dealers for their blow and change and busting into crack houses with assault weapons.
- 2014, Antonio David Hart, Chess Game of the Gods:
  "Get you stupid ass over there by the chip display and don't move," the robber instructed as he positioned himself to where he could see both David and Nicole with minimal movement. That act alone let David know the guy in the Oakland Raiders pullover was an experienced jackboy.

jack-boy

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jack-boy (複数形 jack-boys)

Alternative form of jack boy
- 1856, Philip Massinger, ‎William Gifford, The Plays of Philip Massinger, page 510:
  Come you a wooing, And I alive and lusty? you shall find An alteration, jack-boys; I have a spirit yet (An I could match my hair to't, there's the fault), And can do offices of youth yet lightly;
- 1895, An Old Blue, “Reminiscences of Christ 's Hospital”, in Some More Gleanings, page 45:
  The news soon spread from boy to boy and from ward to ward ; and there was an extraordinary call upon the services of the jack-boys, whose utmost exertions were scarcely equal to the demand.
- 1916, Darrell Figgis, Æ (George W. Russell): A Study of a Man and a Nation, page 131:
  He was lower than the jack-boys and hirelings of the tuath, being generally a prisoner taken in war or an outlaw from some other tuath.

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