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jackpot
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1 chiefly West a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape a wily dude who managed to get himself out of one jackpot after another Synonyms of jackpot bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, predicament [chiefly West], jam, mire, pickle, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swampWords Related to jackpot difficulty, node; hot water, soup; pinch, plight, quandary, scrape, trouble; deadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstill; clutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait
2 the total of the bets at stake at one time once the jackpot hit $100 million, everybody and his cousin was buying lottery tickets Synonyms of jackpot jack, pot, poolWords Related to jackpot fund, kitty; bet, stake, wager
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