Usually means: Game involving picking up sticks.
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  1. jackstraw: Merriam-Webster
  2. jackstraw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. jackstraw: Collins English Dictionary
  4. jackstraw: Vocabulary.com
  5. jackstraw: Wordnik
  6. jackstraw: Wiktionary
  7. jackstraw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. jackstraw: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Jackstraw, jackstraw: Dictionary.com
  10. Jackstraw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. jackstraw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. jackstraw: Rhymezone
  13. Jackstraw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. jackstraw: FreeDictionary.org
  15. jackstraw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. jackstraw: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. jackstraw: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. jackstraw: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See jackstrawing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (jackstraw)

noun:  (usually in the plural) One of the pieces used for the game called jackstraws or pick-up sticks.
noun:  (dated) An insignificant person.
adjective:  Resembling a bundle of jackstraws that has been strewn on a surface.
adjective:  (obsolete, of a person) Of no substance or worth.

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