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Definition of jack-o'lantern in English English dictionary
- Alternative spelling of jack-o'-lantern
We helped the children carve pumpkins into Jack O'Lanterns.
- A vegetable, usually a pumpkin, but alternatively a turnip, carved into the form of a face and lighted within by a candle. Associated chiefly with the holiday Halloween
- a strange light that attracts travellers from the paths into dangerous marshes or graveyards, possibly caused by methane, now rarely seen. (See Wikipedia for other explanations)