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jig1  audio  (jg) KEY 

NOUN:
    1. Any of various lively dances in triple time.
    2. The music for such a dance. Also called gigue.
  2. A joke or trick. Used chiefly in the phrase The jig is up.
  3. A typically metal fishing lure with one or more hooks, usually deployed with a jiggling motion on or near the bottom.
  4. An apparatus for cleaning or separating crushed ore by agitation in water.
  5. A device for guiding a tool or for holding machine work in place.
VERB:
jigged, jig·ging, jigs
VERB:
intr.
  1. To dance or play a jig.
  2. To move or bob up and down jerkily and rapidly.
  3. To operate a jig.
VERB:
tr.
  1. To bob or jerk (something) up and down or to and fro.
  2. To machine (an object) with the aid of a jig.
  3. To separate or clean (ore) by shaking a jig.

IDIOM:
in jig time Informal
Very quickly; rapidly.
ETYMOLOGY:
Origin unknown


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