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Jack Russell

noun

  1. a small short-legged terrier having a white coat with tan, black, or lemon markings: there are rough- and smooth-haired varieties Also calledJack Russell terrier
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Jack Russell1

named after John Russell (1795–1883), English clergyman who developed the breed
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Yuliia, 33, another neighbour, was out walking her Jack Russell.

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Nova took over as Britain’s top dog from Dilyn, Boris and Carrie Johnson's adopted Jack Russell.

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Russell, who was born in Montebello in 1960, went on to play with a reunited version of the original Great White until the band broke up again and he reformed Jack Russell’s Great White.

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Singer and songwriter Jack Russell, who scored hard-rock hits in the 1980s with his band Great White and who survived a Rhode Island nightclub fire in 2003 that killed 100 people, has died.

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Yet the next year Russell and Kendall formed a splinter group called Jack Russell’s Great White that began touring clubs around the country.

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