spring-heeled Jack
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英文释义
名词 n.
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A terrifying man of bizarre appearance and able to make extraordinary leaps, the subject of English folklore of the Victorian era.
— And he rattled, thumped, brandished his thunderbox, yelled, shouted, raved, roared, stamped, and danced corrobory like any black fellow; and then he touched a spring in the thunderbox, and out popped turnip-ghosts and magic-lanthorns and pasteboard bogies and spring-heeled Jacks and sallaballas […]
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