jackpot

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of JACKPOT

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 bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot [chiefly West], jam, mire, pickle, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp

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 jack, jackpot, pool

Related Words fund, kitty; bet, stake, wager

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