jackpot
IPA: dʒˈækpɑt
noun
- A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
- A large cash prize or money.
- An unexpected windfall or reward.
- (forestry) A concentration of surface wood or fuel.
- (pinball) A large accumulated point bonus, originally awarded after a long set of actions but now often easily available in multiball modes.
- (playground games) A ball game in which a thrower calls out a point value and whether the ball must be caught "alive" (in the air) or "dead" (having touched the ground), and a group of catchers compete to catch the ball.
- (Western US) A difficult situation.
- A jumble of felled timber.
- A census-designated place in Elko County, Nevada, United States.
verb
- (of a slot machine, intransitive) To issue a jackpot.
Examples of "jackpot" in Sentences
- Timing of player's jackpot choice.
- There was no jackpot winner on that draw.
- A jackpot game was implemented additionally.
- That will be the total jackpot prize for the day.
- The amount allocated to the jackpot was increased.
- The contestant was awarded the car and the jackpot.
- Certainly that is the experience with large jackpot lotteries.
- You can collect your Jackpot Euros in the game by collecting flotsam.
- One can collect their Jackpot Euros in the game by collecting flotsam.
- Once a player wins the jackpot, the jackpot resets to a preset minimum level.
- ANDY SCOTT guided the Bees towards the title jackpot and roared: Let's go to Vegas
- [De Grey's] "M Prize" competition for longevity research topped $1M in jackpot last week.
- ANDY SCOTT guided the Bees towards the League Two title jackpot - and then roared: Let's all go to Vegas.
- Tonight's jackpot is short of breaking the European record set by a single ticket on the Italian SuperEnalotto game which banked £128.3 million on August 22 last year.
- People play the machines because they expect a large short-term jackpot, while the machines are in fact programmed to pay off, say, $0.80 on the dollar in the long term.
- Add this to a handful of other divestments in power, energy and minerals companies, and a jackpot from the sale of telecom airwaves, and the government has netted itself a cool $29 billion this year.
- The story was full of tales claiming to illustrate Americans 'overarching sense of legal entitlement and desire to "win a jackpot from a system that allows sympathetic juries to award plaintiffs not just real damages … but millions more for the impossible-to-measure' pain and suffering 'and highly arbitrary' punitive damages. '"