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Definition of "jackknife" []
- A large clasp knife. (noun)
- Sports A dive in the pike position, in which the diver straightens out to enter the water hands first. (noun)
- To fold or double (something or oneself) like a jackknife. (verb-transitive)
- To cut or stab with a jackknife. (verb-transitive)
- To bend or fold up like a jackknife: A truck that had jackknifed was blocking the road. (verb-intransitive)
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Use "jackknife" in a sentence
- "To rephrase Steve McIntyre if he will forgive me the jackknife is the statistical technique of resampling by running the estimate on subsamples of N-q from a sample of N then averaging the results."
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- "That caused one of those vehicles to "jackknife" into the lane of traffic that Turner was driving in, striking her vehicle head-on."
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