Blackback vs Blackjack - What's the difference?
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(zoology) An adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee.
* 1979 , A. H. Harcourt, "Contrasts between Male Relationships in Wild Gorilla Groups," Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology , vol. 5, no. 1, p. 40:
* 2005 , B. J. Bradley et al.'', "Mountain Gorilla Tug-of-War," ''PNAS , vol. 102, no. 26, p. 9421:
(UK) the great black-backed gull.
(card games) A common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without going over.
(card games) A hand in the game of blackjack consisting of a face card and an ace.
The flag (i.e., a jack) traditionally flown by pirate ships; popularly thought to be a white skull and crossed bones on a black field (the Jolly Roger). In older literature sometimes spelled "black jack".
A small, flat, blunt, usually leather-covered instrument loaded with heavy material such as lead or ball bearings.
Any of several species of weed of genus Bidens , such as , in the family Compositae.
To strike with a blackjack or similar weapon.
As nouns the difference between blackback and blackjack
is that blackback is (zoology) an adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee while blackjack is (label) a fan of the south korean girl group.blackback
English
Noun
(en noun)- The author worked with two main study groups of gorilla in that region. Each contained a fully mature male (silverback), who was the obvious leader of the group, and a younger male of around 9 years of age (blackback ), who had not yet assumed full adult morphology.
- The second-ranking silverback is also a possible sire in the sixth case, although three other lower-ranking blackback males were also not excluded.