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noun ˈdʒɪɡəˈdʒɪɡər 1A machine or vehicle with a part that rocks or moves to and fro, e.g. a jigsaw. they invented a jigger that pulls nets under the ice Example sentencesExamples - Machines called jiggers and jolleys are used to make tableware in ceramics factories.
- With a working width of 4.5 meters, the HT jigger is the largest such dyeing unit installed in Italy.
- The newly-diagnosed disease causes fingers to turn white and numb as a result of using hand-held vibrating tools such as pneumatic drills and jigger picks.
2A person who dances a jig. 3A small sail set at the stern of a ship. - 3.1 A small tackle consisting of a double and single block with a rope.
Example sentencesExamples - And no squid is safe from the Seattle squid jiggers who flock to the docks at dusk and stay into the wee hours of the night, hoping to catch a few.
- What is needed is an incentive for fishers in New Zealand waters to use jiggers, a ban on trawling would do that.
4A measure or small glass of spirits or wine. Example sentencesExamples - Require the use of jiggers or pre-measured dispensing systems, and buy high-quality shot glasses with pour lines marked on them.
- I still remember steeling myself to down the glass of the vile red stuff like a sailor knocks back a jigger of rot gut and then shakes all over.
- Maybe after a jigger of scotch and a snort of ecstasy, you'll be more inclined to eat and enjoy these pretzels.
- I'll have a jigger in your honor… my honor is questionable these days.
- Use a jigger or similar device to ensure that the amount of alcohol is consistent.
- The game lasted about an hour and half, which I think is the shelf life of a jigger of Geritol.
- If you must rely on a home remedy, the best is a jigger of pickle juice.
- Some cocktail jiggers include a handle of some sort attached to them.
- One drink is one can of beer, one glass of wine, or one jigger of hard liquor.
- The ‘medicine’ that Amelia spoke of was actually a jigger of brandy followed by three pints of water.
- A more personal synergy of my own: a jigger of Harvey's turns a fine chili to ambrosia.
5informal A rest for a billiard cue. 6Golf
dated A metal golf club with a narrow face. Example sentencesExamples - Clubs were named rather than numbered so I have jiggers, cleeks, mashies, spoons [and] mussel-backs all represented in the sculpture.
7Canadian NZ A small hand- or power-operated railway vehicle used by railway workers. Example sentencesExamples - I'm not taking a jigger to Wellingtown tomorrow.
verb ˈdʒɪɡəˈdʒɪɡər [with object]informal Rearrange or tamper with. conventional price indexes often jigger the market basket's content Example sentencesExamples - No matter how I jigger and poke this test, I can't make it say I'll live until 100.
- Public protestations aside, she says, ‘Clinicians know privately that results can be jiggered.’
- And if we jigger the foundation design to suit the purposes of organizations that will likely be dead in 15 years, how shortsighted is that?
- I've jiggered my knee, by the way - no, please, no sympathy - and it really hurts.
- That didn't stop them from paying $1.63 billion this week for Overture, a company whose specialty is selling the ability to jigger search results.
- ‘It'd take a lot of jiggering about and testing,’ the PFY warns.
- Tax cuts and benefit increases are cynically jiggered to mesh with an increasingly mythical congressional budget plan.
- That adds it to the network, without any need to jigger with complex settings.
- Feldstein mentions some revenue-neutral tax jiggering that could be stimulative, but that sounds like fairly ordinary tax policy stuff to me.
- It says it wants 10 percent minority representation, and then they have to jigger the system to figure out how to reach that number.
- We combat disease, we keep out the weather, we grow more crops, and we can jigger with our social arrangements as well.
- Will Microsoft jigger Pd to prevent Linux from running?
- In the broadest sense, the jiggering of the American vote is one of the more routine facts of political life.
- A four-minute featurette gives you an idea of what work was necessary to jigger the film down to a PG - 13 rating.
- Cathy's an ace with the computer and knows how to jigger the DNA analyser database to delete the log entry for a test run.
Synonyms modify, alter, regulate, tune, fine-tune, calibrate, balance
Origin Mid 16th century (originally a slang word for a door): from the verb jig. Rhymes chigger, configure, figure, Frigga, ligger, rigger, rigor, rigour, snigger, swigger, transfigure, trigger, vigour (US vigor) noun variant spelling of chigger
nounˈdʒɪɡərˈjiɡər 1A machine or vehicle with a part that rocks or moves back and forth, e.g., a jigsaw. they invented a jigger that pulls nets under the ice Example sentencesExamples - The newly-diagnosed disease causes fingers to turn white and numb as a result of using hand-held vibrating tools such as pneumatic drills and jigger picks.
- Machines called jiggers and jolleys are used to make tableware in ceramics factories.
- With a working width of 4.5 meters, the HT jigger is the largest such dyeing unit installed in Italy.
2A person who dances a jig. 3A small fore-and-aft sail set at the stern of a ship. - 3.1 A small tackle consisting of a double and single block or two single blocks with a rope.
Example sentencesExamples - And no squid is safe from the Seattle squid jiggers who flock to the docks at dusk and stay into the wee hours of the night, hoping to catch a few.
- What is needed is an incentive for fishers in New Zealand waters to use jiggers, a ban on trawling would do that.
4A measure or small glass of spirits or wine. Example sentencesExamples - I'll have a jigger in your honor… my honor is questionable these days.
- I still remember steeling myself to down the glass of the vile red stuff like a sailor knocks back a jigger of rot gut and then shakes all over.
- Require the use of jiggers or pre-measured dispensing systems, and buy high-quality shot glasses with pour lines marked on them.
- One drink is one can of beer, one glass of wine, or one jigger of hard liquor.
- The ‘medicine’ that Amelia spoke of was actually a jigger of brandy followed by three pints of water.
- The game lasted about an hour and half, which I think is the shelf life of a jigger of Geritol.
- Maybe after a jigger of scotch and a snort of ecstasy, you'll be more inclined to eat and enjoy these pretzels.
- A more personal synergy of my own: a jigger of Harvey's turns a fine chili to ambrosia.
- Use a jigger or similar device to ensure that the amount of alcohol is consistent.
- If you must rely on a home remedy, the best is a jigger of pickle juice.
- Some cocktail jiggers include a handle of some sort attached to them.
5Golf
dated A metal golf club with a narrow face. Example sentencesExamples - Clubs were named rather than numbered so I have jiggers, cleeks, mashies, spoons [and] mussel-backs all represented in the sculpture.
6US Used to refer to a thing whose name one does not know or does not wish to mention. Example sentencesExamples - While I was in Oz last week I took the opportunity to have a steer of one of these little jiggers.
- I came to the conclusion that I missed having one of these jiggers at the office.
- This little jigger features a 660 cc petrol engine mated to a very small electric motor.
- The power to weight ratio is incredible, and riding one of these jiggers goes down as my all-time most frightening buzz!
- If this little jigger hasn't been strongly influenced by the Audi TT I'll eat my hat, and my Shenanigans T shirt for dessert.
- Despite the funny name, this little jigger has a top speed of 395 kph (250 mph in the old money) and does the 0-100 kph in an unbelievable 3.2 seconds.
- To stick one of these little jiggers in the garage will set you back 2.6 million, or 2.7 fully loaded, as they say in the trade.
verbˈdʒɪɡərˈjiɡər [with object]informal Rearrange or tamper with. conventional price indexes often jigger the market basket's content Example sentencesExamples - Feldstein mentions some revenue-neutral tax jiggering that could be stimulative, but that sounds like fairly ordinary tax policy stuff to me.
- ‘It'd take a lot of jiggering about and testing,’ the PFY warns.
- Will Microsoft jigger Pd to prevent Linux from running?
- Tax cuts and benefit increases are cynically jiggered to mesh with an increasingly mythical congressional budget plan.
- It says it wants 10 percent minority representation, and then they have to jigger the system to figure out how to reach that number.
- And if we jigger the foundation design to suit the purposes of organizations that will likely be dead in 15 years, how shortsighted is that?
- In the broadest sense, the jiggering of the American vote is one of the more routine facts of political life.
- We combat disease, we keep out the weather, we grow more crops, and we can jigger with our social arrangements as well.
- I've jiggered my knee, by the way - no, please, no sympathy - and it really hurts.
- Public protestations aside, she says, ‘Clinicians know privately that results can be jiggered.’
- No matter how I jigger and poke this test, I can't make it say I'll live until 100.
- A four-minute featurette gives you an idea of what work was necessary to jigger the film down to a PG - 13 rating.
- That didn't stop them from paying $1.63 billion this week for Overture, a company whose specialty is selling the ability to jigger search results.
- Cathy's an ace with the computer and knows how to jigger the DNA analyser database to delete the log entry for a test run.
- That adds it to the network, without any need to jigger with complex settings.
Synonyms modify, alter, regulate, tune, fine-tune, calibrate, balance
Origin Mid 16th century (originally a slang word for a door): from the verb jig. noun variant spelling of chigger
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