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noun

Jackpot n.

Same as jack pot. See under jack.

Any larger-than-usual gambling prize formed by the accumulation of unwon bets.

The highest gambling prize awarded in a gambling game in which smaller prizes are also awarded, especially such a prize on a slot machine.

An unusually large success in an enterprise, either unexpected or unpredictable, esp. one providing a great financial benefit.

hit the jackpot to receive an unexpectedly large (or the largest possible) benefit from an enterprise; as, after prospecting for years, he finally hit the jackpot when he discovered a silver lode.

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Etymology of 'Jackpot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jackpot" Quotes from Famous Books

... beckoned to them imperatively, with a jerk of his head to add insistence. The four of them looked after him uncertainly. Weary kicked his horse and started, then Pink did the same. Andy beckoned again, more emphatically than before, and Big Medicine, who loved a fight as he loved to win a jackpot, turned and glared at the man in the doorway as he passed. Slim was rumbling by-golly ultimatums in his fat chest when ...

— The Flying U's Last Stand • B. M. Bower

... from him since he come to New York. So bein' as I got a chanct to go from Tucson with a jackpot trainload of cows to Denver, I kinda made up my mind to come on here the rest of the way and look him up. I'm afraid some one's ...

— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine

... he was told to do, and the next morning he went out to see whether anything had happened. What was his amazement to find that a mass of twisted stalks had grown out of his jackpot and climbed till they covered the high cliff back of the tennis court, disappearing ...

— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor