Wiktionary
n. One of the 52 playing cards from a standard pack as used for bridge and poker, with a picture of a jack (or knave), with a nominal value of 11, and with the diamonds suit.
Wikipedia
Jack of Diamonds (, Romanized: Bubnovyi Valet), also called Knave Of Diamonds, was a group of avant-garde artists founded in 1910 in Moscow. The group remained active until December 1917.
Jack of Diamonds may refer to:
- Jack of diamonds, the jack (playing card) of one suit
- Jack of Diamonds (artists), Russian school
- The Jack of Diamonds, a 1949 film directed by Vernon Sewell
- Jack of Diamonds (1967 film)
- Jack of Diamonds (2001 film)
- "Jack of Diamonds" (song), a traditional folk song
- Jack of Diamonds (novel), a 2012 novel by Bryce Courtenay
Jack of Diamonds (a.k.a. Jack o' Diamonds and Jack of Diamonds (Is a Hard Card to Play)) is a traditional folk song. It is a Texas gambling song that was popularized by Blind Lemon Jefferson. It was sung by railroad men who had lost money playing conquian. At least twelve white artists recorded the tune before World War II. The song has been recorded under various titles such as "A Corn Licker Still in Georgia" ( Riley Puckett) and "Rye Whiskey" (Tex Ritter).
The song is related to "Drunkard's Hiccoughs", " Johnnie Armstrong", "Todlen Hame", "Bacach", "Robi Donadh Gorrach", "The Wagoner's Lad", "Clinch Mountain", " The Cuckoo", "Rye Whiskey", "Saints Bound for Heaven", "Separation", and "John Adkins' Farewell." This family of tunes originally comes from the British Isles, though is most well known in North America. The lyrics may originate in the American Civil War song "The Rebel Soldier" and the melody from the Scottish song "Robie Donadh Gorrach", known by Nathaniel Gow as "An Old Highland Song".
Jack of Diamonds is a 1967 film directed by Don Taylor filmed in Germany that was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It stars George Hamilton in the lead role of an international cat burglar and jewel thief.
Jack of Diamonds is a 2012 novel by Australian author Bryce Courtenay.
It is Courtenay's final novel, finished shortly before his death from cancer.
Usage examples of "jack of diamonds".
He had a jack of diamonds-which counted as zero-and a two of spades.
She remembered a very young and beautiful woman with warm and perfumed hands, who had nothing in common with the jack of diamonds and his rheumatic hands, and who used to put flowers in her hair and take her out walking in the afternoon through a town with green streets.
He had a narrow, knuckly, intelligent face beneath a feathered cap, and he wore a stiff crewelworked doublet that, with its huge shoulders and waistless line, made him look a good deal like a jack of diamonds.
Jak was able to take the eye out of the jack of diamonds at twenty paces.
It was the jack of diamonds which he'd thought was in Nessler's hand.
Petoskey showed the eight of clubs and Lukinov the jack of diamonds.
The guy pushing the gurney let it go, and I flew forward spinning like the jack of diamonds tossed at a big silk top hat.