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7 letters · 22 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
noun any outstanding award
originAttested as jack-pot (“big prize”), 1944; from sense "slot machine" (1932), from obsolete poker sense (1881) "antes that begin when no player has a pair of jacks or better"; from jack (“playing card”) + pot.
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