ALL meanings of jackknife
jack·knife
J j - noun jackknife tool: pocket knife 1
- noun jackknife movement: folding in half 1
- noun jackknife dive with bend 1
- intransitive verb jackknife fold in half 1
- intransitive verb jackknife dive 1
- noun plural jackknife a large pocketknife. 1
- noun plural jackknife Fancy Diving. a dive in which the diver bends in midair to touch the toes, keeping the legs straight, and then straightens out. 1
- verb without object jackknife to bend or double over like a jackknife: The prizefighter jackknifed and fell when he was hit in the stomach. 1
- verb without object jackknife (of a trailer truck) to have the cab and trailer swivel at the linkage until they form a V shape, as the result of an abrupt stop or accident. 1
- verb without object jackknife (in diving) to perform a jackknife. 1
- verb without object jackknife to move rapidly at an abrupt angle. 1
- verb with object jackknife to cause to jackknife: The blow jackknifed the prizefighter. 1
- verb with object jackknife to cut with a jackknife. 1
- adjective jackknife resembling a jackknife, as in its shape, function, or manner of opening and folding. 1
- noun jackknife A knife with a folding blade. 1
- noun jackknife Alternative spelling of jack-knife. 0
- noun jackknife (statistics) A resampling method that applies estimators to all subsamples that each omit a single different group (possibly of a single datapoint) of the original sample to provide a sample distribution of the estimate. 0
- verb jackknife Alternative spelling of jack-knife. 0
- intransitive verb jackknife If a truck that is in two parts jackknifes, the back part swings around at a sharp angle to the front part in an uncontrolled way as the truck is moving. 0
- noun jackknife a knife with the blade pivoted to fold into a recess in the handle 0
- noun jackknife a former name for a type of dive in which the diver bends at the waist in midair, with the legs straight and the hands touching the feet, finally straightening out and entering the water headfirst: forward pike dive 0
- verb jackknife (of an articulated lorry) to go out of control in such a way that the trailer swings round at an angle to the cab 0
- verb jackknife to make a jackknife dive 0
- noun jackknife a large pocketknife 0
- noun jackknife a dive in which the diver keeps his knees unbent, touches his feet with his hands, and then straightens out just before plunging into the water 0
- verb transitive jackknife to cut with a jackknife 0
- verb transitive jackknife to cause to jackknife 0
- intransitive verb jackknife to bend at the middle as in a jackknife dive 0
- intransitive verb jackknife to turn on the hitch so as to form a sharp angle with each other 0
- verb jackknife If a truck that is in two parts jackknifes, the back part swings around at a sharp angle to the front part in an uncontrolled way as the truck is moving. 0