jigger
IPA: dʒˈɪgɝ
noun
- (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).
- (US) A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.
- (US, slang) A drink of whisky.
- (mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
- (mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
- (pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
- (textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
- A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
- (UK, slang, dated) A bicycle.
- (golf, dated) A golf club used to play low flying shots to the putting green from short distances.
- A warehouse crane.
- (nautical) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
- (nautical) A jiggermast.
- (nautical, New England) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
- (fishing) A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
- (archaic) One who dances jigs; an odd-looking person.
- (New Zealand) A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
- (US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
- (rail transport, New Zealand) A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
- The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
- (horse racing) An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
- (archaic) A streetcar drawn by a single horse.
- (archaic) A kind of early electric cash register.
- (Australia, surveying, slang) A total station or its predecessor, a theodolite.
- A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
- A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
- (slang, archaic) A prison; a jail cell.
- (dialect, Liverpool, dated) An alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses.
- (slang, euphemistic, dated) The penis.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vagina.
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A door.
- (slang) An illegal distillery.
- (slang, UK) A lock pick.
verb
- To alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended.
- (pottery) To use a jigger.
- To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball.
- (slang, obsolete) To imprison.
- (slang, archaic) To confound; to damn.
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Examples of "jigger" in Sentences
- He worked for two years at the Jigger Shop.
- Anyone can jigger a curve to fit past data.
- Some tools used are ice auger, hook and jigger.
- Get on the Thinga ma jigger and go to the world.
- To shape hollowware by the same process as jigger.
- In a fourmaster the after mast is called the jigger mast.
- The term jigger is hardly unique to a particular company.
- Maxwell's equations is constantly being jiggered in dubious ways.
- It is preceded by the jigger mast and followed by the spanker mast.
- Iggy is excitedly waiting with a fatigued Jiggers in the center of Mooseknuckle.
- To suggest that making drinks using a jigger is the only way, and that it is more precise, is a completely false notion.
- But, to suggest that making drinks using a jigger is the only way, and that it is more precise, is a completely false notion.
- I understand how one can derive that measuring with a jigger is more precise, and perhaps more profitable for beverage operations.
- But these new establishments and the consultants that come out of them are holding onto a tenet that says that not using a jigger is just sloppy bartending.