单词 | jackleg |
释义 | jackleg /jak"leg'/, Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. adj. 1. unskilled or untrained for one's work; amateur: a jackleg electrician. 2. unscrupulous or without the accepted standards of one's profession: a jackleg lawyer. 3. makeshift; temporary. n. 4. an unskilled or unscrupulous itinerant worker or practitioner. [1840-50, Amer.; perh. JACK1 + (BLACK)LEG] |
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