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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large West Indian tree, of the species Cordia elliptica or C. macrophylla.

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  • noun Caribbean A person; the average or common person; anybody.

Etymologies

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every man Jack

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Examples

  • By this time next year, if that old bag of tricks Letterman is still with us, Conan will be knockin' another gap in his set of chompers. manjack i love craig ferguson.

    TV Buzz: What Does the Future Hold For The Tonight Show? NBC Chief “Dethrones” Conan O’Brien. David Letterman Drinking His Milkshake. | /Film 2009

  • In each episode the likes of Ken and Cherry - and all the other Secretaries of This and Chairmans of That who've been given responsibility for federal entities they've vowed to destroy - are imaginatively gunned down each week, always by lone assassins, lifetime NRA members every manjack of them, wielding one of those guns that don't kill people.

    Tony Hendra: National RePUBLICan Radio 2008

  • Secretly he ran his eye over the assembly, and found that it was so ... though he could not have put a name to a single manjack of them.

    Ultima Thule 2003

  • He's as straight as a string, not a crooked hair in his head, and every manjack of you knows it.

    Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • Yet, if we were to go away, she would storm at us to-morrow; call us sycophants and time-servers, swear she would hold no further commerce with any manjack among our detestable crew.

    London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

  • And how on earth can we assume every manjack/womanjill would sign up?

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • And how on earth can we assume every manjack/womanjill would sign up?

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • Curious, too, how even as past polls and present calypsoes point to the vulnerability of the ruling party (count how many of them are taking direct aim at the Prime Minister), not a manjack among them is sniffing opportunity in the political air, as if the tribes are resolutely separate, whatever the lie given that by the NAR earthquake of '86.

    TrinidadExpress Today's News 2010

  • Curious, too, how even as past polls and present calypsoes point to the vulnerability of the ruling party (count how many of them are taking direct aim at the Prime Minister), not a manjack among them is sniffing opportunity in the political air, as if the tribes are resolutely separate, whatever the lie given that by the NAR earthquake of '86.

    TrinidadExpress Today's News 2010

  • But it was a year of major turbulence, largely the result of financial misadventures - the sub-prime mortgage crash in America turned into a full-blown crisis, and the resulting recession has hit every manjack among us in one way or another.

    Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009

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