jig
IPA: dʒˈɪg
noun
- (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.
verb
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To skip school or be truant (Australia, Canadian Maritimes)
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Examples of "jig" in Sentences
- The jig thus simulates the presence of a pig.
- I hope the person realizes that the jig is up.
- The bottom of the jig incorporates an acute angle.
- They went to somewhere to see the jig performance.
- A trammel is a jig for cutting circles with a router.
- The overhang and angle brace are elaborately jig sawn.
- Someone should put the icon, the JIG Man on the article.
- Early solo dancing was composed mostly of extemporaneous jigging.
- Weight: 1 oz. Details: The action of an Air-Plane jig is hard to beat.
- A jig and method of mounting the implant in the jaw bone is also described.
- While a jig is a jig is a jig, head designs also vary according to purpose.
- The most stable technique is the interlocking jig saw or the dove tail joint.
- 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.