Speakur

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come from a cracker jack box

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English

Syllables
come from a crack-er -jack- box
IPA
62
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To obtain or retrieve something that is useless, cheap or fake.

Derogatory; Slang

Usage

Inflected Forms

comes from a Cracker Jack box (present, singular) coming from a Cracker Jack box (participle, present) came from a Cracker Jack box (past) get from a Cracker Jack box (alternative)

Questions

What does come from a cracker jack box mean?
To obtain or retrieve something that is useless, cheap or fake.

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