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jigger
noun- a bank robber US
- We had a pretty good bunch of O’Sullivans, a torch man, a mechanic, a jigger and a hard-shell biscuit who’d been with a gopher mob. We crashed with a get-in betty. — The New American Mercury, p. 709, 1950
- But Bucklew needed a “jigger,” someone to watch for the guard. — Pete Earley, The Hot House, p. 254, 1992
- a lookout during a crime US, 1925
- — Bruce Jackson, Outside the Law, p. 58, 1972: “Glossary”
- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 208, 1990
- — Mark S. Fleisher, Beggars & Thieves, p. 290, 1995: “Glossary”
- an illegally constructed radio receiver AUSTRALIA, 1944 Prison usage.
- a concealed device for giving an electric shock to a horse in a race AUSTRALIA, 1953
- Once just when a trainer was asking Huck to hit a horse with a battery on the track a DC3 aeroplane flew over. “No use hitting him the j-j-jigger,” the old Huck said. “He couldn’t w-win a race with the engine of that b-b-b-bloody aeroplane in him.” — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 97, 1975
- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 42, 1989
- a woman who will dance with a man for a fee US
- The dance floor was jammed. The dime jiggers were of every age and every type and a lot of them wore cheap formals and the smiles on their faces were hard and false. — Thurston Scott, Cure it with Honey, p. 151, 1951
- a door UK, 1567
An early cant word that survives in English gypsy use. - — Jimmy Stockin, On The Cobbles, p. 10, 2000
- a slow freight train US, 1927
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 87, 1977
- a small railway line hand-car or trolley used in line maintenance NEW ZEALAND
- A surfaceman was killed when a train overtook him as he was traveling between Wiri and Homai on a jigger. — Evening Post, p. 14, 25 March 1953
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