jimmy
IPA: dʒˈɪmi
Root Word: Jimmy
noun
- A diminutive of the male given names James or Jim, also used as a formal given name.
- (Scotland, informal) A colloquial (potentially unfriendly or disparaging) way of addressing any male whose name is unknown to the speaker.
- A prime mover powered by a two-stroke Detroit Diesel engine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened form of Jimmy Riddle, a piddle, a piss.
- (plural only, dialectal, New England, Pennsylvania, New Jersey) Chocolate sprinkles used as a topping for ice cream, cookies, or cupcakes.
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
- (informal) A device used to circumvent a locking mechanism; a slim jim.
- (slang, Royal Navy) First Lieutenant (Executive Officer)
- (US) A jemmy; a crowbar used by burglars to open windows and doors.
- (US, slang) A penis.
- (US, slang) A condom.
- (SE, slang) Men's underwear.
- (rare) A male crab, especially a mature male; a cock. (Sometimes capitalized.)
- (US) A coal-car.
- Alternative form of jimmy (“a mature male crab”) [(plural only, dialectal, New England, Pennsylvania, New Jersey) Chocolate sprinkles used as a topping for ice cream, cookies, or cupcakes.]
verb
- (transitive, informal) To pry (something, especially a lock) open with or as if with a crowbar.
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Examples of "jimmy" in Sentences
- Have you ever seen the jimmy
- I tried to open it with the jimmy.
- I went to the house to bring a jimmy.
- Jimmy enters, and the tirade continues.
- He's trying to open the door using the jimmy.
- Jimmy continues on the case of the kidnapping.
- His father showed him how to open it with a jimmy.
- The Frenchman Jimmy Casper outsprinted the peloton.
- For the first time ever, I'm interested in jimmy olsen.
- It's called jimmy-arm, guys, and you should see a doctor.
- I don't like the fact that he could open it only with the jimmy.
- What did we ever call the jimmy-leg before Seinfeld? soup looks good!
- I tried to learn how to open it but it was hard to open only with a jimmy.
- He remembered the "jimmy" -- yet this would betray him, by the broken lock!
- He wanted John to stay over that night and stand watch while he, Scorch, opened the safe with something he called a jimmy! "
- It had been this way for months now -- ever since the night the policeman had found him, the "jimmy" dropped from his hands, in the alley.
- the vault throw a fit and run sickly and sleepy eleven (aka jimmy) boozer goodbye. good night. miss you already canadian mail smash this n that mom i'm not a rocker!
- I think the reporter just listened to the stern show he was on about 2 weeks ago and said that "jimmy" was ready in 18 months for a new true lies and that arnold was on board.
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- And as he waited and watched, the lawyer, at his solicitation, invented for him a magic "jimmy" -- an instrument with which he could not only break through the outside door, but as easily force his way past the complex locks of the chambers inside.