jig

IPA: dʒˈɪg

(music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
(traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
(traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
(mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
(obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
(obsolete) A trick; a prank.
(US, offensive, slang, dated, ethnic slur) A black person.
(World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter J.

Examples of "jig" in Sentences

Weight: 1 oz. Details: The action of an Air-Plane jig is hard to beat.
While a jig is a jig is a jig, head designs also vary according to purpose.
This jig is a big producer because it takes hardly any action to make fish hit it.
Re-jig is short for rejigger which according to Merriam-Webster's means to alter or rearrange.
Plus you keep a better handle on where the jig is and you have a more direct line to the lure.
The drop of the jig is the most important part of its action -- but I'll expand that more later.
That being said, it almost makes sense that they would vilify the very people who they bilked, conned, and stole from, now that the jig is up.
The FBI, for instance, follows lower-level drug smugglers instead of arresting them all the time, but if they see one of them stuff someone in a trunk, the jig is up and they pull over the car.
Monofilament of the same diameter goes down a little faster, but it stretches as much as 25 to 35 percent, meaning if the jig is at 200 feet or more, you'd have to move the rod tip up and down 4 or 5 feet just to get the jig to move a few inches.