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jack a cab
to steal a cab from the driver; from hijack, carjack [The Denver Post, 3 May 1995]

JANFU
Joint Army-Navy Fuck-Up; see SNAFU

jeep
1:
[mil] an operator just out of tech school; possibly from JP, Just Processed; first heard at RAF Chicksands, 1985 see FNG, newbie
2: [mil] the four-wheel-drive scout vehicle, possibly from GP, General Purpose; compare with hummer

jerkwater (town)
A small, rural town. Steam trains sometimes gathered water from troughs laid between the rails, and the passing engine jerked water up from the trough with a scoop; hence, a jerkwater town was one that a train would not stop in even to take on water. It's also been said that a jerkwater was a small town just big enough to have a water tower where the train stopped only long enough to take on water, but not big enough to have a station; the jerk comes from the engineer jerking the water pipe down from the tower.

Jesus Christ on a bike
exclamation of exasperation; also, ~ on a crutch

jet
see excellent

johnnie pump
a fire hydrant in Brooklyn

jonesing
1: -vi- intoxicated, high; joansing, jonzing; -adj- jonesed
2: -vt- with "for," to desire more intoxicating drugs; I was jonesing for another hit of crack.

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