# "Jick" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 13, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471 "2006-04-13T01:58:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/21 "2006-04-13T13:04:29Z")
A viler version of “jack” as in “You don’t know jick”. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/22 "2006-04-13T13:08:23Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] In card games, euchre in particular, it is the off jack, or the jack that is the same color but not the same suit as the trump suit. [/QUOTE] This is what struck me when I read the question. In some games, points are awarded for capture of Jick, Jack, Joker and “Game.” Other than that usage, I’ve never heard the term elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/23 "2006-04-13T15:05:11Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] What does “Jick” mean to you? [/QUOTE] I immediately thought of perfume: > **[Escentual | Premier Destination for Beauty Products Since 2000](https://escentual.com/)** > > Escentual.com is a premier UK beauty retailer offering over 11,000 beauty products across skincare, makeup, fragrance, and haircare from all your favourite beauty brands, ensuring quality, service, and satisfaction. VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/24 "2006-04-13T16:10:51Z")
I never heard of the word before seeing this thread (\ and its title in the main listing \), so it didn’t mean anything in particular to me. The short I sound and the CK ending suggested that it could easily be made into someing unpleasant or insulting, though. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/25 "2006-04-13T16:25:35Z")
Pedro, from **Napoleon Dynamite** saying “ick” ---
**Author:** ![cruel\_butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/26 "2006-04-13T16:30:26Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] A morning radio guy here in the Twin Cities uses “Jicky Jack” as a perjorative. “Then the drunk Jicky Jack challenged the starting left tackle to a fight.” [/QUOTE] I’ve always used “jicky jack” to describe those residential-area intersections where the street you’re on comes to an end only to continue on a few yards to the right or left. My brother and I describe it this way when giving directions: “Go down Pennsylvania three blocks. It’ll do a jicky-jack once you get to 14th. Follow it all the way to Hobson.” ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/27 "2006-04-13T20:10:02Z")
Completely unfamiliar. And I’ve seen Kingdom of Loathing. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/28 "2006-04-13T20:15:36Z")
It’s a shortened version of the popular name “Jichard”. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/29 "2006-04-13T20:22:10Z")
I’ve noticed graffiti tags around town that say “jick” ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/30 "2006-04-13T20:25:36Z")
Umm, maybe a hick that is so hickish that it had to be bumped up two levels? ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/31 "2006-04-13T22:07:15Z")
[QUOTE=Veuve\_ClicquotNJ] I immediately thought of perfume: > **[Escentual | Premier Destination for Beauty Products Since 2000](https://escentual.com/)** > > Escentual.com is a premier UK beauty retailer offering over 11,000 beauty products across skincare, makeup, fragrance, and haircare from all your favourite beauty brands, ensuring quality, service, and satisfaction. VCNJ~ [/QUOTE] Hey, me too! Exact same one. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/32 "2006-04-13T23:31:19Z")
[QUOTE=Jimmy Chitwood] It means a longhair with a penchant for pop-culture references. [/QUOTE] Do you mean the old definition of ‘longhair’ like when they used to call classical music ‘longhair music’? Or do you mean someone like a hippie or musician from the 60s or 70s? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/33 "2006-04-13T23:45:14Z")
I guessed “jerk” + “dick.” I’d never heard the word before, though I have heard of Malkmus’s band. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/34 "2006-04-13T23:50:14Z")
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus] Do you mean the old definition of ‘longhair’ like when they used to call classical music ‘longhair music’? Or do you mean someone like a hippie or musician from the 60s or 70s? [/QUOTE] The 60’s/70’s one. I was referring to the creator of Kingdom of Loathing. He has long hair and calls himself a hippy all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/35 "2006-04-14T02:57:17Z")
To me, it is an utterly meaningless term. ---
**Author:** ![Naz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@Naz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Naz)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/36 "2006-04-14T07:10:05Z")
I’m in with the Kingdom of Loathing people. Other than that, the word means nothing to me. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/37 "2006-04-14T20:51:01Z")
It means nothing as of yet , But I think you know … You must share it !! ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/38 "2006-04-15T05:10:42Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] What does “Jick” mean to you? [/QUOTE] Perhaps the child has some sort of speech impediment. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/39 "2006-04-15T10:14:38Z")
My immediate thought was poop, because my mom used to call poop “gick”, with a hard G. Jick is just too close to gick for me not to think of poop. ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471/40 "2006-04-16T02:31:23Z")
Kingdom of Loathing, which doesn’t surprise me since I strated playing after someone here recommended it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jick/352471.md?page=3)