Usually means: Man who ate no fat.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jack Sprat (disambiguation), Jack Sprat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  2. Jack Sprat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  3. jack sprat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  4. Jack Sprat: Wiktionary

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  1. Sprat, Jack: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jack sprat, jack sprat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. jack sprat: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Jack Sprat)

▸ noun:  (informal) A small or skinny boy or man.

Similar:
sprig, spadger, snip, spider, skipjack, jack, jackstraw, Jack-a-Lent, squab, Jack the lad, more...

Opposite:
plump, rotund, chubby, corpulent, overweight

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Similar:
sprig, spadger, snip, spider, skipjack, jack, jackstraw, Jack-a-Lent, squab, Jack the lad, more...

Opposite:
plump, rotund, chubby, corpulent, overweight



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