Jack-in-the-water

English

Noun

Jack-in-the-water (plural Jacks-in-the-water)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) An attendant at the watermen's stairs on the river and seaport towns.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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