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Meanings of play jacks in English

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Usage of play jacks in English
1
This kid should learn to play jacks or skip a rope.
The Forest Monster of Oz
2
And she could play jacks like a fiend.
All together dead
3
Kids tore past me on bikes or played jacks in driveways.
11/22/63
4
I walked to the desk, zigzagging through maggots like a child playing jacks.
Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
5
Children lay around, outnumbering the furniture, standing, sitting, draped across the floor playing jacks.
The well and the mine
6
Playing jacks with Angela on the front steps of the brownstone where they'd lived for a time in Chicago.
Witch blood
7
"I could play jacks with Nellie Yarrow," she said to herself.
Brother and Sister
8
She went to school with migrant workers and played jacks with the children of soldiers and learned that she was very smart.
The lost recipe for happiness
9
Diantha listened for a while, sat on the floor and played jacks for half an hour, then reclined her seat and went to sleep.
All together dead
10
"Want to play jacks?"
A Son of the City / A Story of Boy Life
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"We didn't make much o' the woods an' birds," he remarked with a twisted smile, "but man alive, we can play jacks!"
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
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