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WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Jackpot (film); Jackpot (disambiguation); Jackpot (album); Jackpot!

jackpot         
(jackpots)
1.
A jackpot is the most valuable prize in a game or lottery, especially when the game involves increasing the value of the prize until someone wins it.
A nurse won the ?5 million jackpot.
N-COUNT: usu sing
2.
If you hit the jackpot, you have a great success, for example by winning a lot of money or having a piece of good luck. (INFORMAL)
PHRASE: V inflects
jackpot         
n. to hit the jackpot (also fig.)
jackpot         
¦ noun a large cash prize or accumulated stake in a game or lottery.
Phrases
hit the jackpot informal
1. win a jackpot.
2. have great or unexpected success.
Origin
C19 (orig. used in a form of poker): from jack1 + pot1.

Wikipedia

Jackpot

Jackpot or Jackpot! may refer to:

  • A prize, such as a progressive jackpot
  • Gardena jackpots, a poker variant
  • Jackpot, Nevada, a community on the Nevada–Idaho state border
Examples of use of JACKPOT
1. It was the largest jackpot in the game‘s history and the second–biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
2. The $206.' million jackpot is New Mexico‘s largest lottery sum ever and the 15th–largest jackpot in Powerball history.
3. The Powerball jackpot has reached a high of $365 million –– making it the largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history.
4. Until then, the richest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history was the $314.' million Powerball jackpot won by a West Virginia man on Christmas Day 2002.
5. "As well as the biggest ever UK National Lottery jackpot, the 55million prize is by far the largest lottery jackpot to date in all eight of the other countries participating in EuroMillions÷ Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Portugal, France, Luxembourg, Spain and Switzerland." Biggest jackpot The biggest UK jackpot was on January 6 1''6, when three winning–tickets shared the first ever Lotto Double Rollover jackpot of 42,008,610.