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noun ˈdʒɪɡəˈdʒɪɡər 1A machine or vehicle with a part that rocks or moves to and fro, e.g. a jigsaw. 往复式机器（或运载器），振动式机器（或运载器），摇动式机器（或运载器），如往复式竖线锯 they invented a jigger that pulls nets under the ice Example sentencesExamples - Machines called jiggers and jolleys are used to make tableware in ceramics factories.
- With a working width of 4.5 meters, the HT jigger is the largest such dyeing unit installed in Italy.
- The newly-diagnosed disease causes fingers to turn white and numb as a result of using hand-held vibrating tools such as pneumatic drills and jigger picks.
2A person who dances a jig. 跳吉格舞的人 3A small sail set at the stern of a ship. 船尾后桅帆，补助帆 - 3.1 A small tackle consisting of a double and single block with a rope.
小滑车，轻便复滑车 Example sentencesExamples - And no squid is safe from the Seattle squid jiggers who flock to the docks at dusk and stay into the wee hours of the night, hoping to catch a few.
- What is needed is an incentive for fishers in New Zealand waters to use jiggers, a ban on trawling would do that.
4A measure or small glass of spirits or wine. （酒类）计量杯，小量杯 Example sentencesExamples - Require the use of jiggers or pre-measured dispensing systems, and buy high-quality shot glasses with pour lines marked on them.
- I still remember steeling myself to down the glass of the vile red stuff like a sailor knocks back a jigger of rot gut and then shakes all over.
- Maybe after a jigger of scotch and a snort of ecstasy, you'll be more inclined to eat and enjoy these pretzels.
- I'll have a jigger in your honor… my honor is questionable these days.
- Use a jigger or similar device to ensure that the amount of alcohol is consistent.
- The game lasted about an hour and half, which I think is the shelf life of a jigger of Geritol.
- If you must rely on a home remedy, the best is a jigger of pickle juice.
- Some cocktail jiggers include a handle of some sort attached to them.
- One drink is one can of beer, one glass of wine, or one jigger of hard liquor.
- The ‘medicine’ that Amelia spoke of was actually a jigger of brandy followed by three pints of water.
- A more personal synergy of my own: a jigger of Harvey's turns a fine chili to ambrosia.
5informal A rest for a billiard cue. 〈非正式〉（台球）球杆托架 6Golf
dated A metal golf club with a narrow face. 〔高尔夫〕〈旧〉小铁头球棒，四号球棒 Example sentencesExamples - Clubs were named rather than numbered so I have jiggers, cleeks, mashies, spoons [and] mussel-backs all represented in the sculpture.
7Canadian NZ A small hand- or power-operated railway vehicle used by railway workers. 〈加，新西兰〉（铁路工人用手动或机动）小型轨道车 Example sentencesExamples - I'm not taking a jigger to Wellingtown tomorrow.
verb ˈdʒɪɡəˈdʒɪɡər [with object]informal Rearrange or tamper with. 〈非正式〉调整，打乱；损害，阻止 conventional price indexes often jigger the market basket's content Example sentencesExamples - No matter how I jigger and poke this test, I can't make it say I'll live until 100.
- Public protestations aside, she says, ‘Clinicians know privately that results can be jiggered.’
- And if we jigger the foundation design to suit the purposes of organizations that will likely be dead in 15 years, how shortsighted is that?
- I've jiggered my knee, by the way - no, please, no sympathy - and it really hurts.
- That didn't stop them from paying $1.63 billion this week for Overture, a company whose specialty is selling the ability to jigger search results.
- ‘It'd take a lot of jiggering about and testing,’ the PFY warns.
- Tax cuts and benefit increases are cynically jiggered to mesh with an increasingly mythical congressional budget plan.
- That adds it to the network, without any need to jigger with complex settings.
- Feldstein mentions some revenue-neutral tax jiggering that could be stimulative, but that sounds like fairly ordinary tax policy stuff to me.
- It says it wants 10 percent minority representation, and then they have to jigger the system to figure out how to reach that number.
- We combat disease, we keep out the weather, we grow more crops, and we can jigger with our social arrangements as well.
- Will Microsoft jigger Pd to prevent Linux from running?
- In the broadest sense, the jiggering of the American vote is one of the more routine facts of political life.
- A four-minute featurette gives you an idea of what work was necessary to jigger the film down to a PG - 13 rating.
- Cathy's an ace with the computer and knows how to jigger the DNA analyser database to delete the log entry for a test run.
Synonyms modify, alter, regulate, tune, fine-tune, calibrate, balance
OriginMid 16th century (originally a slang word for a door): from the verb jig. Rhymeschigger, configure, figure, Frigga, ligger, rigger, rigor, rigour, snigger, swigger, transfigure, trigger, vigour (US vigor) noun variant spelling of chigger
nounˈdʒɪɡərˈjiɡər 1A machine or vehicle with a part that rocks or moves back and forth, e.g., a jigsaw. 往复式机器（或运载器），振动式机器（或运载器），摇动式机器（或运载器），如往复式竖线锯 they invented a jigger that pulls nets under the ice Example sentencesExamples - The newly-diagnosed disease causes fingers to turn white and numb as a result of using hand-held vibrating tools such as pneumatic drills and jigger picks.
- Machines called jiggers and jolleys are used to make tableware in ceramics factories.
- With a working width of 4.5 meters, the HT jigger is the largest such dyeing unit installed in Italy.
2A person who dances a jig. 跳吉格舞的人 3A small fore-and-aft sail set at the stern of a ship. 船尾后桅帆，补助帆 - 3.1 A small tackle consisting of a double and single block or two single blocks with a rope.
小滑车，轻便复滑车 Example sentencesExamples - And no squid is safe from the Seattle squid jiggers who flock to the docks at dusk and stay into the wee hours of the night, hoping to catch a few.
- What is needed is an incentive for fishers in New Zealand waters to use jiggers, a ban on trawling would do that.
4A measure or small glass of spirits or wine. （酒类）计量杯，小量杯 Example sentencesExamples - I'll have a jigger in your honor… my honor is questionable these days.
- I still remember steeling myself to down the glass of the vile red stuff like a sailor knocks back a jigger of rot gut and then shakes all over.
- Require the use of jiggers or pre-measured dispensing systems, and buy high-quality shot glasses with pour lines marked on them.
- One drink is one can of beer, one glass of wine, or one jigger of hard liquor.
- The ‘medicine’ that Amelia spoke of was actually a jigger of brandy followed by three pints of water.
- The game lasted about an hour and half, which I think is the shelf life of a jigger of Geritol.
- Maybe after a jigger of scotch and a snort of ecstasy, you'll be more inclined to eat and enjoy these pretzels.
- A more personal synergy of my own: a jigger of Harvey's turns a fine chili to ambrosia.
- Use a jigger or similar device to ensure that the amount of alcohol is consistent.
- If you must rely on a home remedy, the best is a jigger of pickle juice.
- Some cocktail jiggers include a handle of some sort attached to them.
5Golf
dated A metal golf club with a narrow face. 〔高尔夫〕〈旧〉小铁头球棒，四号球棒 Example sentencesExamples - Clubs were named rather than numbered so I have jiggers, cleeks, mashies, spoons [and] mussel-backs all represented in the sculpture.
6US Used to refer to a thing whose name one does not know or does not wish to mention. Example sentencesExamples - While I was in Oz last week I took the opportunity to have a steer of one of these little jiggers.
- I came to the conclusion that I missed having one of these jiggers at the office.
- This little jigger features a 660 cc petrol engine mated to a very small electric motor.
- The power to weight ratio is incredible, and riding one of these jiggers goes down as my all-time most frightening buzz!
- If this little jigger hasn't been strongly influenced by the Audi TT I'll eat my hat, and my Shenanigans T shirt for dessert.
- Despite the funny name, this little jigger has a top speed of 395 kph (250 mph in the old money) and does the 0-100 kph in an unbelievable 3.2 seconds.
- To stick one of these little jiggers in the garage will set you back 2.6 million, or 2.7 fully loaded, as they say in the trade.
verbˈdʒɪɡərˈjiɡər [with object]informal Rearrange or tamper with. 〈非正式〉调整，打乱；损害，阻止 conventional price indexes often jigger the market basket's content Example sentencesExamples - Feldstein mentions some revenue-neutral tax jiggering that could be stimulative, but that sounds like fairly ordinary tax policy stuff to me.
- ‘It'd take a lot of jiggering about and testing,’ the PFY warns.
- Will Microsoft jigger Pd to prevent Linux from running?
- Tax cuts and benefit increases are cynically jiggered to mesh with an increasingly mythical congressional budget plan.
- It says it wants 10 percent minority representation, and then they have to jigger the system to figure out how to reach that number.
- And if we jigger the foundation design to suit the purposes of organizations that will likely be dead in 15 years, how shortsighted is that?
- In the broadest sense, the jiggering of the American vote is one of the more routine facts of political life.
- We combat disease, we keep out the weather, we grow more crops, and we can jigger with our social arrangements as well.
- I've jiggered my knee, by the way - no, please, no sympathy - and it really hurts.
- Public protestations aside, she says, ‘Clinicians know privately that results can be jiggered.’
- No matter how I jigger and poke this test, I can't make it say I'll live until 100.
- A four-minute featurette gives you an idea of what work was necessary to jigger the film down to a PG - 13 rating.
- That didn't stop them from paying $1.63 billion this week for Overture, a company whose specialty is selling the ability to jigger search results.
- Cathy's an ace with the computer and knows how to jigger the DNA analyser database to delete the log entry for a test run.
- That adds it to the network, without any need to jigger with complex settings.
Synonyms modify, alter, regulate, tune, fine-tune, calibrate, balance
OriginMid 16th century (originally a slang word for a door): from the verb jig. noun variant spelling of chigger
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