y-jack

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English

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noun

"The answer is a small, inexpensive, plastic doodad called a splitter (or Y-jack), which as its name suggests splits a single phone jack into two. So now you can plug your computer and phone into the same wall jack"
"If you bring along your own pair of headphones and a Y-jack, two people can share one audioguide and save."

From its shape, like a capital Y.

Y-jacks (plural)

Y-splitter

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