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noun
1.
a person or thing that jigs.
2.
3.
any of various mechanical devices, many of which have a jerky or jolting motion.
4.
Informal. some contrivance, article, or part that one cannot or does not name more precisely: What is that little jigger on the pistol?
5.
EXPANDCeramics. a machine for forming plates or the like in a plaster mold rotating beneath a template.
6.
Mining. a jig for separating ore.
7.
a jig for fishing.
8.
Golf. a club with an iron head intermediate between a mashie and a midiron, now rarely used.
9.
Billiards, Pool. a bridge.
10.
COLLAPSEa.
a 11/2-oz. (45-ml) measure used in cocktail recipes.
b.
a small whiskey glass holding 11/2 ounces (45 ml).
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Jigger
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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| jigger1 (ˈdʒɪɡə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing that jigs |
| 2. | golf an iron, now obsolete, with a thin blade, used for hitting long shots from a bare lie |
| 3. | any of a number of mechanical devices having a vibratory or jerking motion |
| 4. | a light lifting tackle used on ships |
| 5. | a small glass, esp for whisky, with a capacity of about one and a half ounces |
| 6. | (NZ) a light hand- or power-propelled vehicle used on railway lines |
| 7. | engineering a type of hydraulic lift in which a hydraulic ram operates the lift through a block and tackle which increases the length of the stroke |
| 8. | (Canadian) a device used when setting a gill net beneath ice |
| 9. | mining another word for jig |
| 10. | nautical short for jiggermast |
| 11. | billiards another word for bridge |
| 12. | informal (US), (Canadian) a device or thing the name of which is unknown or temporarily forgotten |
| 13. | dialect (Liverpool) an alleyway |
| jigger or jigger flea2 (ˈdʒɪɡə) | |
| —n | |
| other names for the chigoe | |
| jigger flea or jigger flea2 | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
jigger
"1.5-ounce shot glass," 1836, from jigger, a 1756 alteration of chigger "tiny mite or flea" (q.v.). As a name for various appliances, it is attested from 1825, from jig (q.v.).
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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