jacks
/dʒaks
/noun Irish
A toilet.The study suggests that kids who smoked at 16 spent less time later on in school, not because they hung out in the jacks, but because smoking revealed something about how they valued the future....
- Sure jasus, I've been in pubs where there were all manner of sexes in different jackses and god knows what was happening.
- Gary Howlett lets out a howl of despair in the jacks when he discovers there's no toilet paper.
Origin
Variant form of jakes.
- staying power
- stay-in strike
- Stayman
- Stayman Winesap
- stay of execution
- stay on
- stay over
- stay put
- stay rod
- staysail
- stay someone's hand
- stay stitching
- stay the course (or distance)
- stay up
- stay well
- stay with
- Staël, Mme de
- St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
- St Barts
- St. Basil's Cathedral
- stbd.
- St Bernard
- St Bernard dog
- St Bernard Pass
- St Bridget