Usually means: Toy that springs open unexpectedly.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word jack in the box:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. jack-in-the-box: Merriam-Webster
  2. jack-in-the-box: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jack-in-the-box: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jack-in-the-box, jack-in-the-box: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jack-in-the-box: Vocabulary.com
  6. jack-in-the-box: Wordnik
  7. jack-in-the-box: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jack-in-the-box: Wiktionary
  9. jack-in-the-box: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jack-in-the-box: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. jack-in-the-box, jack in the box: Dictionary.com
  12. jack-in-the-box: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. jack-in-the-box: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Jack In The Box, Jack-in-the-Box (Astro City), Jack-in-the-Box (Marvel Comics), Jack-in-the-Box (short story), Jack in the Box (Satie), Jack in the Box (disambiguation), Jack in the Box (murder victim), Jack in the Box (restaurant), Jack in the Box (song), Jack in the Box, Jack-in-the-box, Jack in the box: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. jack-in-the-box: Rhymezone
  16. jack-in-the-box: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. jack-in-the-box: FreeDictionary.org
  18. jack-in-the-box: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. jack-in-the-box: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. jack in the box: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jack-in-the-Box (comics), jack-in-the-box: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jack in the box, jack in the box, jack in the box: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. jack-in-the-box, jack in the box: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Jack in the Box)

▸ noun:  Jack in the Box, Inc. is an American fast-food restaurant chain founded in 1951, by Robert O. Peterson in San Diego, California, where it is headquartered.
▸ noun:  A jack-in-the-box is a children's toy dating back to the 16th century.
▸ noun:  "Jack in the Box", written by David Myers and composed by John Worsley, was the 's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, performed by the Northern Irish singer Clodagh Rodgers.
▸ noun:  (sometimes seen as Jack-in-the-Box) a work written by Erik Satie in 1899 for a pantomime-ballet (Satie called it a "clownerie", and also a "suite anglaise")Classical Archives to a scenario by the illustrator Jules Depaquit.
▸ noun:  the debut studio album of South Korean rapper J-Hope of BTS, released on July 15, 2022, through Big Hit Music.

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