The cumulative stake in a game (such as poker)

Usage examples of jackpot.

When Art Howe put Mabry in a few games, to give other guys a rest, and Mabry had started hitting homers, both Billy and Paul reacted as if they had walked into the casino, stuck a quarter into a slot machine, and hit the jackpot.

The dragon waddled through the casino leaving a string of jackpots in his wake.

Anyway, the bank's on that damn square I never can spell-Dag Hammarskj6ld-and is American-Amazonas," When he hung up, Kettering scooped up the hundred-dollar bills and told Mony, "We hit the jackpot.

With that attitude plus a few money-management skills, they were able to hang on longer than most slot players who plunged at the dollar machines after getting nowhere with quarters, and because of their patience and perseverance, the duchesses won more jackpots than did the tide of tourists that ebbed and flowed around them.

The neighbor's loaded, and you know, the ambulance chaser smells a jackpot.

Trish pondered the possibility she'd gotten some bad information, as JoLayne Lucks didn't behave like a woman who'd won a free toaster, much less a Lotto jackpot.

He had stopped the Pit Boss as the stocky man had turned in mid-step to return to Kostner and the jackpot ted machine.

But the carnival of ambulance-chasing lawyers and senior citizens taking well-timed pratfalls in hope of hitting a different kind of jackpot really annoyed Shane.

At first I thought she was holding out for a really big jackpot or nest-egg or superannuation scheme.

I checked again -- jackpot -- systems analyst for the German government.

I mean to say, tent caterpillars and influenza don't do us any good, Meade, if statistics mean anything, this tired old planet hasn't seen a jackpot like this since Eve went into the apple business.