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Show . U CKQ000X , How It Started By Jean Newton 00KKXK000XKKK THE "BLACKJACK" rl-ACKJACK" today describes O short stick with a bludgeon head. The highwayman and the thus with whom, next to the revolver, It ll a favorite weapon, have popularized the blackjack, and made 1IM nam familiar In daily speech. One should say "daily slang," for the term hai no legitimate derivation, being ol strange and Irregular origin. "Blackjack" was the name applied In former times in England to a typ oi flagon from which beer and alt were drunk. It was made of leather, tar coated, which made it hard and black. Hence Its mime, "blackjack," "Jack" being the archaic word for 1 pitcher or cai for carrying liquor. As to how the term came to be applied ap-plied to an offensive weapon, nothing more definite can lie adduced than th perhaps bvlous conjecture of tin connection between the flagon which held enough liquor to rob a man ol his senses and the weapon which on would use only when bereft of them (Copyright.) ( |