jigger
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (US) A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).Examples: "A good jigger will have a well formed lip that will pour a clean stream into the cocktail shaker or glass."; "He also championed the “bartender’s choice” found on many cocktail menus, the use of jiggers to measure out drinks, and even the ubiquitous use of cucumber slices in water glasses."US
2. (US) A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.Examples: "“People are so dam’ sensitive about colour around here that you can’t even ask a barman for a jigger of rum. You have to ask for a jegro.”"Synonyms: ponyUS
3. (US, slang) A drink of whiskey.USslang
4. (mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
5. (mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
6. (pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.Examples: "Hand jiggers consisted of two iron frames with a spindle in each - the driving spindle with its iron belt pulley approximately 20 inches in diameter and the driven spindle with a small wooden pulley."Synonyms: jolley
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended.Examples: "You'll have to jigger it from the original specifications to get it to work."transitive
2. (pottery, transitive) To use a jigger.Synonyms: jolleytransitive
3. (transitive) To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball.Examples: "He could jigger the ball o'er a steeple tall as most men would jigger a cop."transitive
noun (English)
1. (slang, archaic) A prison; a jail cell.Examples: "According to a disciplinary notice, a correctional officer saw a "jigger string" coming from cell H-2 to Harper's cell. A jigger string is used to move objects between cells."archaicslang
2. (dialect, Liverpool, dated) An alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses.Examples: ""It's jus' through this jigger and round the back of the next block." She hurried through the alleyway in front of me; the pressing back-yard walls prevented anything more than single file."Synonyms: alleydateddialectal
3. (slang, euphemistic, dated) The penis.Examples: "Well, they saw a little boy on the street and his penis was hanging out and they said his "jigger" was hanging out, and I said, "Well, maybe his mother didn't tell him differently.""datedeuphemisticslang
4. (slang, euphemistic) A vagina.Examples: "A tiny pulse from Lisette's thigh beat under my ear: stroke, stroke, stroke. I contemplated the thick red bush of her jigger, so close to my face."euphemisticslang
5. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A door.Examples: "On getting to the top of the stair, to my disappointment there was a padlock upon the garret jigger; I wheep't out my chive, broke it up, and picked the padlock with the back-spring."; ""Crash the cull—down with him—down with him before he dubs the jigger. Tip him the degan, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes we shall all be scragged.""UKobsolete
6. (slang) An illegal distillery.slang
verb (English)
1. (slang, obsolete) To imprison.Examples: "...offering to swear an alibi for the prisoner [...] to ensure an acquittal. Terms: £50 for value received. No pay if jiggered."obsoleteslang
2. (slang, archaic) To confound; to damn.Examples: "jigger me, but I think you be turning jest into earnest,"; "It had always been his habit to say, "I will be jiggered," but this time he said, "I am jiggered.""archaicslang
Definition source: Wiktionary