Jackal
noun
A wild animal that looks like a small wolf and lives in Africa and Asia.
The golden jackal is known for its intelligence and its ability to adapt to different environments.
Often appears as...
- golden jackal
- black-backed jackal
noun
A person who helps someone with dishonest plans and gets nothing in return.
He was often seen as a jackal, doing the dirty work for his boss.
Often appears as...
- act like a jackal
- be a jackal
Usage tips
Disapproving
Idiomatic
noun
A wild animal that looks like a small wolf and lives in Africa and Asia.
The golden jackal is known for its intelligence and its ability to adapt to different environments.
Often appears as...
- golden jackal
- black-backed jackal
noun
A person who helps someone with dishonest plans and gets nothing in return.
He was often seen as a jackal, doing the dirty work for his boss.
Often appears as...
- act like a jackal
- be a jackal
Usage tips
Disapproving
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Metaphor
Often used in stories to represent cunning or opportunistic characters.
In the fable, the jackal outwitted the lion.
Pro Tip 2/3Adaptability
Refers to someone or something that is highly adaptable like the golden jackal.
She's a real jackal, thriving in any job she takes.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
Can imply scavenging behavior, not just being agile and smart.
The corporation was like a jackal, feeding off smaller companies.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Metaphor
Often used in stories to represent cunning or opportunistic characters.
In the fable, the jackal outwitted the lion.
Pro Tip 2/3Adaptability
Refers to someone or something that is highly adaptable like the golden jackal.
She's a real jackal, thriving in any job she takes.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
Can imply scavenging behavior, not just being agile and smart.
The corporation was like a jackal, feeding off smaller companies.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Metaphor
Often used in stories to represent cunning or opportunistic characters.
In the fable, the jackal outwitted the lion.
Pro Tip 2/3Adaptability
Refers to someone or something that is highly adaptable like the golden jackal.
She's a real jackal, thriving in any job she takes.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
Can imply scavenging behavior, not just being agile and smart.
The corporation was like a jackal, feeding off smaller companies.
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Mammoths resurrected and...
They don't need to, because so many of these farms are connected that they've made reforested wildlife corridors, that the wolves are coming back, in this case, to Spain. They've gotten all the way to the Netherlands. There's bears coming back. There's lynx coming back. There's the European jackal. I had no idea such a thing existed.
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Kenya’s Wildlife...
black-backed jackals they were playing a game with like tag in the tall grass the early light is golden the air is cool and the birds are singing and swooping over the grass as they hunt insects it's all pretty much a standard morning in the serengeti ecosystem home to some of the most iconic wildlife on earth
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Filming A Battle Of Life...
that's exposed and it just really does sandblast you as you're crawling in it fills your ears even trying to breathe you inhale and you get a mouthful of sound and nose full of sand yeah it's horrible and the seals and the jackals they're just dealing with this pretty much every day that's what life's
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Jewel of Namibia PIPE Nat...
jackals looking for an easy meal here's a fur seal pup trying to defend itself against a hungry jackal but jackals are not the only ones I want to take advantage of the seals this is a very rare image of a very rare animal very
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Safari Live - Day 325 PIPE...
bit of defense there though against those black-backed jackals they were actually kind of helped us find the cheetah even even still just finding cheetahs is is just great jeez I've been lucky there's a drive completely lucky
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Jackal vs. Ostrich Egg...
highly motivated animal trying and failing to figure out this culinary conundrum it's just a little too big a little too slippery a little too everything for the jackal there's three pounds of food in there and it's gonna
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Jackal vs. Ostrich Egg...
motivated animal trying failing to figure out this culinary conundrum it's just a little too big a little too slippery a little too everything for the jackal there's three pounds of food in there
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Safari Live - Day 7 PIPE...
that's after me saying I've only seen jackal once and Bobby but I'm afraid I think he has just disappeared through the bush maybe you'll come out to the woods the watering hole maybe
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Jackal vs. Ostrich Eggs...
egg and a hungry jackal means to make a meal out of it what we've got here is a highly motivated animal trying and failing to figure out this culinary conundrum it's
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TIL: Vultures Have to...
more often where things like hyenas and jackals are hunted by humans and there aren't any left to help the vultures get a carcass open
Video examples
Mammoths resurrected and...
They don't need to, because so many of these farms are connected that they've made reforested wildlife corridors, that the wolves are coming back, in this case, to Spain. They've gotten all the way to the Netherlands. There's bears coming back. There's lynx coming back. There's the European jackal. I had no idea such a thing existed.
Video examples
Kenya’s Wildlife...
black-backed jackals they were playing a game with like tag in the tall grass the early light is golden the air is cool and the birds are singing and swooping over the grass as they hunt insects it's all pretty much a standard morning in the serengeti ecosystem home to some of the most iconic wildlife on earth
Video examples
Filming A Battle Of Life...
that's exposed and it just really does sandblast you as you're crawling in it fills your ears even trying to breathe you inhale and you get a mouthful of sound and nose full of sand yeah it's horrible and the seals and the jackals they're just dealing with this pretty much every day that's what life's
Video examples
Jewel of Namibia PIPE Nat...
jackals looking for an easy meal here's a fur seal pup trying to defend itself against a hungry jackal but jackals are not the only ones I want to take advantage of the seals this is a very rare image of a very rare animal very
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 325 PIPE...
bit of defense there though against those black-backed jackals they were actually kind of helped us find the cheetah even even still just finding cheetahs is is just great jeez I've been lucky there's a drive completely lucky
Video examples
Jackal vs. Ostrich Egg...
highly motivated animal trying and failing to figure out this culinary conundrum it's just a little too big a little too slippery a little too everything for the jackal there's three pounds of food in there and it's gonna
Video examples
Jackal vs. Ostrich Egg...
motivated animal trying failing to figure out this culinary conundrum it's just a little too big a little too slippery a little too everything for the jackal there's three pounds of food in there
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 7 PIPE...
that's after me saying I've only seen jackal once and Bobby but I'm afraid I think he has just disappeared through the bush maybe you'll come out to the woods the watering hole maybe
Video examples
Jackal vs. Ostrich Eggs...
egg and a hungry jackal means to make a meal out of it what we've got here is a highly motivated animal trying and failing to figure out this culinary conundrum it's
Video examples
TIL: Vultures Have to...
more often where things like hyenas and jackals are hunted by humans and there aren't any left to help the vultures get a carcass open
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Quote examples
John Perkins
Economist
And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.
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John Kani
South African Actor
I used to wonder, when my grandmother would tell me what the wolf said to the jackal, how these animals can talk. And, she would say, 'in my stories, animals talk. Shut up and listen.
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Steven Bochco
American Producer
When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.
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Ernest Hemingway
American Novelist
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
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Herman Melville
American Novelist
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Quote examples
John Perkins
Economist
And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.
Quote examples
John Kani
South African Actor
I used to wonder, when my grandmother would tell me what the wolf said to the jackal, how these animals can talk. And, she would say, 'in my stories, animals talk. Shut up and listen.
Quote examples
Steven Bochco
American Producer
When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.
Quote examples
Ernest Hemingway
American Novelist
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
Quote examples
Herman Melville
American Novelist
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Example 1 of 5
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