Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The city is also one of two county seats of Hinds County, along with Raymond. The city had a population of 153,701 at the 2020 census, down from 173,514 at the 2010 census. Jacksons population declined more between 2010 and 2020 (11.42%) than any major city in the United States. Jackson is the anchor for the Jackson metropolitan statistical area, the largest metropolitan area completely within the state. With a 2020 population estimated around 600,000, metropolitan Jackson is home to over one-fifth of Mississippis population. The city sits on the Pearl River and is located in the greater Jackson Prairie region of Mississippi.
Founded in 1821 as the site for a new state capital, the city is named after General Andrew Jackson, who was honored for his role in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and later served as U.S. president. Following the nearby Battle of Vicksburg in 1863 during the American Civil War, Union forces under the command of General William Tecumseh Sherman began the siege of Jackson and the city was subsequently burned.During the 1920s, Jackson surpassed Meridian to become the most populous city in the state following a speculative natural gas boom in the region. The current slogan for the city is The City with Soul. It has had numerous musicians prominent in blues, gospel, folk, and jazz. The city is located in the deep south halfway between Memphis and New Orleans on Interstate 55 and Dallas and Atlanta on Interstate 20. Being at this location has given the city the nickname the crossroads of the south.
The city has a number of museums and cultural institutions, including the Mississippi Childrens Museum, Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, Mississippi Museum of Art, Old Capital Museum, Museum of Mississippi History. Other notable locations are the Mississippi Coliseum and the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, home of the Jackson State Tigers Football Team.
The Jackson metropolitan statistical area is the states second largest metropolitan area overall, due to four counties in northern Mississippi being part of the Memphis, Tennessee metropolitan area. In 2020, the Jackson metropolitan area held a GDP of 30 billion dollars, accounting for 29% of the states total GDP of 104.1 billion dollars.
Scrobble
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When Last.fm automatically sends the name of each song played by audio player, they call this “scrobbling.”
Scrobble meaning & definition 1 of Scrobble.
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A term used by [last.fm]. Scrobbling involves taking the last songs you played through your media player (eg. [iTunes]), and filing away the info to improve, and better tailor the songs that are played for you through [last.fm].
After a number of songs are listened to through your media player of choice, a window from [last.fm] will appear, listing these songs, and confirming that you wish to scrobble them. The user has the option of de-selecting songs that they do not wish to scrobble.Scrobble meaning & definition 2 of Scrobble.
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Verb: To [kidnap] or [capture]. In particular to throw a bag or cloth over the head and bundle the victim away.
The term was coined by John Masefield in The Midnight Folk, published in 1827, and is used extensively in the Box of Delights, published in 1937, where Cole Hawlings is scrobbled by throwing a black bag over his head and bundling him into a car.
Neil Gaiman also used scrobbling in the same sense in “Neverwhere”, published in 1996. Gaiman acknowledges the Box of Delights as the origin of the word.Scrobble meaning & definition 3 of Scrobble.
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Can replace most verbs to indicate that an action has been performed, and that it has been logged or recorded by a scrobbler, which is a system that records whatever youre scrobbling, although the scrobbler may not necessarily exist.
Scrobble meaning & definition 4 of Scrobble.
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When the UpdateStar freeware client performs an automatic check for a program update on a users PC, this is called scrobbling an installation.
Scrobble meaning & definition 5 of Scrobble.
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A portmanteau of [scrog] and scramble
having sex when you dont really know whats going on, most often due to intoxication.
Scrobble meaning & definition 6 of Scrobble.
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Whereby one individual proceeds to sloppily [gobble] another persons [scrotum].
Scrobble meaning & definition 7 of Scrobble.
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the action used by zombies in an attack; a combination of gobble and scramble
adopted as a common practice amongst youngsters nowadays, especially on strangers when staggering drunkenly home in undead attireScrobble meaning & definition 8 of Scrobble.
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To scrobble is the action of shaving ones testicles with a rusty blade.
Scrobble meaning & definition 9 of Scrobble.
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What the fuck is a scrobble? A scrobble is a [made up word] meant to mean listeners or replays in the last.[fm] music streaming app. Why [scrobbles]? Nobody fucking knows. Its a scrobble damnit.
Scrobble meaning & definition 10 of Scrobble.