jacky

name

1. A nickname used instead of the male given name Jack, Jacques (and its cognates) or John.
2. A diminutive of the female given name Jacqueline.

noun

1. (Australia, ethnic, offensive, slur)An Aboriginal.
2. (countable, derogatory, slang)A sailor.

   “Up and down that street on a bright Saturday afternoon may be seen our Middle Western jackies chumming with the British sailors and Tommies, or flirting with the Irish girls, or gazing through the little panes of the show-windows […]”

3. (UK, archaic, countable, dialectal, uncountable)English gin.

   “I've snuff, and tobacky, / And excellent jacky.”