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jigger
verb- to adjust, especially of numbers or statistics US
- If the annuity also covers your spouse, payments can be jiggered to reflect your changing joint life expectancy. — Jane Bryant Quinn, Making the Most of Your Money, p. 927, 1997
- President Clinton had cunningly jiggered with the tax code to squeeze enormous sums of money out of comparatively tiny numbers of people. — David Frum, The Right Man, p. 50, 2003
- to serve as a lookout during a crime US
- — Mark S. Fleisher, Beggars & Thieves, p. 290, 1995: “Glossary”
▶ I’ll be jiggered!; I’m jiggered!
used for registering surprise UK, 1886- I’ll be jiggered, said Commodore Guff in genuine amazement. — J. Robert King, Planeshift, p. 143, 2000
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