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jig
1[ jig ]
noun
- Machinery. 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.
verb (used with object)
- to treat, cut, produce, etc., with a jig.
verb (used without object)
- to use a jig.
- to fish with a jig.
jig
2[ jig ]
noun
- 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.
verb (used with object)
- 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.
jig
3[ jig ]
noun
- (formerly used in communications to represent the letter J. )
jig
4[ jig ]
noun
- a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black person.
jig
/ dʒɪɡ /
noun
- 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 calledjigger mining a device for separating ore or coal from waste material by agitation in water
- obsolete.a joke or prank
verb
- 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
- slang.to play truant from school
Other Words From
- jiglike jiggish adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of jig1
Origin of jig2
Word History and Origins
Origin of jig1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
He shows off a jig, developed in-house, upon which a seat can be mounted and angled so that workers can easily access the sides or underside.
To that end, there’s another even more capable version of the jig in the room next door, a prototype that staff here hope will be even better.
Great Britain and Ireland’s women danced an unbridled jig of delight, Niklas Norgaard choked back triumphant tears and Annabel Dimmock blinked in happy disbelief.
Darrien gives Donny a macro dose of the stuff and assures him that he will act as his "guide," before breaking into an unsettling "Amazonian jig" set to percussive music.
“He exposed a lot of people. So they have to do everything they can to keep him out of that White House, ’cause they know Donald Trump gets in for four more years, the jig is up for them.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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