jig
1Machinery. a plate, box, or open frame for holding work and for guiding a machine tool to the work, used especially for locating and spacing drilled holes; fixture.
Angling. any of several devices or lures, especially a hook or gang of hooks weighted with metal and dressed with hair, feathers, etc., for jerking up and down in or drawing through the water to attract fish.
Mining. an apparatus for washing coal or separating ore from gangue by shaking and washing.
a cloth-dyeing machine in which the material, guided by rollers, is passed at full width through a dye solution in an open vat.
to treat, cut, produce, etc., with a jig.
to use a jig.
to fish with a jig.
Origin of jig
1Other definitions for jig (2 of 4)
a rapid, lively, springy, irregular dance for one or more persons, usually in triple meter.
a piece of music for or in the rhythm of such a dance.
Obsolete. prank; trick.
to dance (a jig or any lively dance).
to sing or play in the time or rhythm of a jig: to jig a tune.
to move with a jerky or bobbing motion; jerk up and down or to and fro.
Origin of jig
2Other words from jig
- jiglike, jiggish, adjective
Other definitions for jig (3 of 4)
(formerly used in communications to represent the letter J.)
Other definitions for jig (4 of 4)
a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black person.
Origin of jig
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How to use jig in a sentence
As we left to recuperate at, yes, the vaunted Starbucks, Jigs reminded me of a moment in Pearl Square.
They still hadn't fired on the first man, the one with the flag, though Jigs said he wanted to get hit.
"I hope something else happens, something concrete," Jigs said.
Jigs' friend said fighter jets would be overhead in the next hour.
"They're what we wear when we know we're going to die," Jigs said.
The girls answered with jigs that ended a reel, when couples left the general figure to jig it off.
Lazarre | Mary Hartwell CatherwoodIn the big house Red River jigs and reels were kept up with unflagging energy till daylight.
The Barren Ground of Northern Canada | Warburton Mayer PikeThe figures of the dances were three and four handed reels, or square sets, and jigs.
If you do the jigs up, for that high and mighty sprig down there aint got no sort o use for me.
Three Little Women's Success | Gabrielle E. JacksonYou said–you said that it was so hard to make friends with him, like whistling jigs to a milestone–ah!
Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl | Isabel Katherine Hornibrook
British Dictionary definitions for jig
/ (dʒɪɡ) /
any of several old rustic kicking and leaping dances
a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance, usually in six-eight time
a mechanical device designed to hold and locate a component during machining and to guide the cutting tool
angling any of various spinning lures that wobble when drawn through the water
Also called: jigger mining a device for separating ore or coal from waste material by agitation in water
obsolete a joke or prank
to dance (a jig)
to jerk or cause to jerk up and down rapidly
(often foll by up) to fit or be fitted in a jig
(tr) to drill or cut (a workpiece) in a jig
mining to separate ore or coal from waste material using a jig
(intr) to produce or manufacture a jig
Australian slang to play truant from school
Origin of jig
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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