Usually means: Carved pumpkin lit from inside.
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  1. jack-a-lantern: Vocabulary.com
  2. jack-a-lantern: Wiktionary
  3. jack-a-lantern: Dictionary.com
  4. jack-a-lantern: Rhymezone
  5. Jack-a-Lantern: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  6. jack-a-lantern: FreeDictionary.org
  7. jack-a-lantern: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. jack-a-lantern: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (Jack-a-lantern)

noun:  Alternative spelling of jack-o'-lantern [A carved pumpkin whose top and stem have been cut out and interior removed, leaving a hollow shell that is then decorated to represent a face, illuminated from within by a candle. It is a symbol of Halloween.]

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