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jig

2  [jig] noun, verb, jigged, jig⋅ging, adjective
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–noun
1. a rapid, lively, springy, irregular dance for one or more persons, usually in triple meter.
2. a piece of music for or in the rhythm of such a dance.
3. Obsolete. prank; trick.
–verb (used with object)
4. to dance (a jig or any lively dance).
5. to sing or play in the time or rhythm of a jig: to jig a tune.
6. to move with a jerky or bobbing motion; jerk up and down or to and fro.
–verb (used without object)
7. to dance or play a jig.
8. to move with a quick, jerky motion; hop; bob.
—Idioms
9. in jig time, Informal. with dispatch; rapidly: We sorted the mail in jig time.
10. the jig is up, Slang. it is hopeless; no chance remains: When the burglar heard the police siren, he knew the jig was up.
Origin:
1550–60; in earliest sense “kind of dance” perh. < MF giguer to frolic, gambol, prob. < an unattested WGmc verb (cf. gig 1 ); semantic development of other senses unclear

Related forms:
jiglike, jiggish, adjective
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Slang Dictionary
jig [dʒɪg]

  1. tv. & in.
    to copulate [with] someone. (Usually objectionable.) : She's claiming they jigged twice.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

jig 
"lively dance," c.1560, perhaps related to M.Fr. giguer "to dance," or to the source of Ger. Geige "violin." Meaning "piece of sport, trick" is 1592, now mainly in phrase the jig is up (first attested 1777 as the jig is over).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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