How to pronounce “jack-knife”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A compact folding knife.
• The front-dive pike, in which the body folds and unfolds.
• (colloquial) A semi-trailer truck accident in which the vehicle mimics the closing of a jack-knife.
• A game of skill played with a pocket knife in which participants try to throw or flip the knife to stick upright in the ground at specified points or areas; mumblety-peg.
• (statistics) Alternative spelling of jackknife.
• [Verb]
• To fold in the middle, as a jackknife does.
• (colloquial) To cause a semi-trailer truck to fold like a jackknife in a traffic accident.

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