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US
/ˈdʒɪɡ/
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[ UK /dʒˈɪɡ/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈɪɡ/ ]
NOUN
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
VERB
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
How To Use jig In A Sentence
- Annoyingly, the Critical Care was at the bottom of this mug, requiring a little bit of inginuity from Irwin here - namely ramming his paw in and jiggling about a bit. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- The papyri are broken and illegible; you must assemble an intelligible jigsaw from jagged fragments, truncated lines and eroded ink. Times, Sunday Times
- The vital ingredient of popular appeal was not there despite several bids to rejig the story.
- I have found that a tool guided by a straight-edge, and "jiggered" backwards and forwards, makes by far the best lines for blind-tool work. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians
- Specimens are rarely found in one unbroken piece, and the process of reconstituting them is akin to completing a jigsaw puzzle.
- Best Buy is promoting its Geek Squad, promising shoppers before they buy that complicated electronic thingamajig that its employees will hold their hands through the installation process and beyond.
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- Competitors danced the Highland fling, the sword dance, the sean triubhais, the Highland reel, the sailors' hornpipe, the Irish Jig and other dances, preferably to the music of the bagpipe.
- It says it wants 10 percent minority representation, and then they have to jigger the system to figure out how to reach that number.
- Unable to contain their joy, boys of Punjab broke into a song prompting their friends to do a jig.