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Jack and Jill
     
Jack and Jill
two children in a nursery rhyme (=an old song or poem for young children.) The rhyme goes: Jack and Jill went up the hill/To fetch a pail of water;/Jack fell down and broke his crown,/And Jill came tumbling after.
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