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jiggers

[ jig-erz ]

interjection

, Slang.
  1. watch out:

    Jiggers! the cops are coming!



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Word History and Origins

Origin of jiggers1

Perhaps jigger, as in jiggered + -s 3
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Example Sentences

After, the restorative effects of “two jiggers from an old bottle of Wild Turkey,” he began the next chapter of his life.

At R is one of the pressure engines or jiggers, worked from the accumulator, discharging the water after use into the tank T.

The horrible chigoes, or 'jiggers,' are of the flea family, and with them we must leave Mr. Russell.

Almost as delicate are the boys called “jiggers,” from the “jigger” wheel which they turn.

But we need to call attention to just one more example, that of the harvest-mites or jiggers (Fig. 21).

My feet were all cut and scarred, and full of thorns and jiggers.1 My legs, too, were pretty badly scratched and torn.

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