jackknifing

Meaning of jackknifing

verb
  1. To fold in the middle, as a jackknife does.
    The cat jackknifed in the air and landed gracefully on its feet.
  2. To cause a semi-trailer truck to fold like a jackknife in a traffic accident.
    Before I knew what was happening, I'd jack-knifed the truck.

Information about jackknifing

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of jackknifing

jack-knif-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • jackknifing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with jackknifing

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