Meaning & use
jackpot
A large prize, especially in a lottery or gambling game, that grows until it is won.
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No one matched all six numbers, so the lottery jackpot rolled over to twenty million dollars.
She hit the jackpot on her very first pull of the slot machine.
A note on using this word
Jackpot is often used figuratively outside gambling, as in 'hit the jackpot,' to describe any stroke of unexpected good fortune.
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