Masculine
Meaning
- (masculine) jack (an electronic connector mounted on a surface)
- (Brazil, masculine, slang) rapist, strictly a male one
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Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English jack. Doublet of jaque. The second sense alludes to Jack the Ripper, translated to "Jack o Estripador" in Portuguese, because of the similarity between the words estripador (“disembower, ripper”) and estuprador (“rapist”).
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