Definitions for jig

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Spelling: [jig]

IPA: /dʒɪg/

Jig is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 9 anagrams from letters in jig (gij).

Definitions for jig

noun

1. Machinery. a plate, box, or open frame for holding work and for guiding a machine tool to the work, used especially for locating and spacing drilled holes; fixture.
2. Angling. any of several devices or lures, especially a hook or gang of hooks weighted with metal and dressed with hair, feathers, etc., for jerking up and down in or drawing through the water to attract fish.
3. Mining. an apparatus for washing coal or separating ore from gangue by shaking and washing.
4. a cloth-dyeing machine in which the material, guided by rollers, is passed at full width through a dye solution in an open vat.
5. a rapid, lively, springy, irregular dance for one or more persons, usually in triple meter.
6. a piece of music for or in the rhythm of such a dance.
7. Obsolete. prank; trick.
8. (formerly used in communications to represent the letter J.)
9. a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.

Idioms

1. in jig time, Informal. with dispatch; rapidly:
2. the jig is up, Slang. it is hopeless; no chance remains:

verb (used with object)

1. to treat, cut, produce, etc., with a jig.
2. to dance (a jig or any lively dance).
3. to sing or play in the time or rhythm of a jig:
4. to move with a jerky or bobbing motion; jerk up and down or to and fro.

verb (used without object)

1. to use a jig.
2. to fish with a jig.
3. to dance or play a jig.
4. to move with a quick, jerky motion; hop; bob.

Origin of jig

1855-60; probably akin to jig², in sense “jerk to and fro”; orig. and interrelationship of this group of words uncertain

Examples for jig

Then he succinctly completed his diagnosis: "His jig is up!"

He did not take a step—do a jig—without calculating the odds.

There'll be a snatch or so of fiddlin' that he'll like, to cheer him up, and a jig and a song or so.

"If he's telling the truth, the jig's about up," said Dr. Bird when the Russian had left.

Some supposedly "Christian" organizations have been running an interesting game for years now--but in 2014, I think the jig is up.

The Iraqi could barely repress his glee, and did a kind of jig as he walked across the room.

Why, big Peter will dance a jig on the kitchen table for joy.

She pushed Rgina gently aside, and the child went on with her jig.

She began to cripple and jig most painfully for one of her size and dignity.

In the end, the case was referred to the Nassau County District Attorney, and the jig was up.