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Meanings of jack o'lantern in English
A pumpkin whose top and stem have been cut out and interior removed, leaving a hollow shell that is then decoratively carved, associated with Halloween.
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Examples for "jack-o'-lantern"
Examples for "jack-o'-lantern"
1
It drove away from me like a monstrous jack-o'-lantern driven by the wind.
2
An' dey 'low dey mus' hab a jack-o'-lantern or de fun all sp'iled.
3
His jack-o'-lantern face, Tom saw, was the result of surgery.
4
Ralph glanced up at a floating jack-o'-lantern that seemed to be eyeing his plate.
5
The man was a jack-o'-lantern, a will-o'-the-wisp, a weird, long-legged, long-armed, red-haired illusive phantom.
Usage of jack o'lantern in English
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Pumpkin Head Image: Jennifer D. I started out trying to make a jack o'lantern.
2
This is where I first saw a jack o'lantern (ignis fatui).
3
I did not know whether to run or stand, until I heard Tom laugh and say, "Well, well, that's a jack o'lantern."
4
French children of all ages have embraced Hallowe'en costumes, jack o'lanterns and trick-or-treating.
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Looking to go beyond the crooked snaggletooth grin for your Jack O'Lantern this year?
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And yet-whenbroad daylight came JackO'Lantern had vanished completely.
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The Muley Cow rather enjoyed the talk she caused because she had eaten Jack O'Lantern.
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And I knocked Jack O'Lantern off the fence post.
9
And she claimed that at that hour Jack O'Lantern still sat on the fence post.
10
All the after-dark prowlers knew about Jack O'Lantern.
11
On a crisp fall evening a terrible, grinning fellow known as Jack O'Lantern appeared about the farmhouse.
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If we stopped to make a Jack o'lantern the wolf would catch up to us and grab us.
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After a while Jack O'Lantern vanished.
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A parade of giant jack o'lanterns?
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"Why not make a Jack o'lantern of the pumpkin and scare the wolf?"
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And when at last the Muley Cow spoke up and said that she had done for Jack O'Lantern, nobody could believe her.