Usually means: Powerful, percussive tools breaking concrete.
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  1. jackhammers: Merriam-Webster
  2. jackhammers: Collins English Dictionary
  3. jackhammers: Vocabulary.com
  4. jackhammers: Wordnik
  5. jackhammers: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. jackhammers: Wiktionary
  7. jackhammers: Dictionary.com
  8. jackhammers: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Jackhammers: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Jackhammers: Encyclopedia

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  1. jackhammers: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jackhammer)

noun:  A portable percussive power tool that combines a hammer and chisel used to drill or break hard matter, for instance rock or concrete.
noun:  (figurative) Something that is very strong but also very rigid.
verb:  (intransitive) To use a jackhammer.
verb:  (transitive) To break (something) using a jackhammer.
verb:  (transitive) To form (something) using a jackhammer.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To move like a jackhammer.
verb:  To beat hard, to pound. (of the heart or pulse)
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To move (something) like a jackhammer.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To strike (something) repeatedly with force, to pound.
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