JIMMY Definition & Meaning

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jimmy

[ jim-ee ]

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noun

plural jimmies.

a short crowbar.
a large male crab, especially of Chesapeake Bay.

verb (used with object)

jimmied, jimmying.

to force open (a door, window, etc.) with a jimmy:
The burglar got in by jimmying the back door.

jimmy

[ jim-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Australian Slang.

plural jimmies.

an immigrant.

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[ jim-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a male given name, form of James.

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noun

slang.
an informal term of address to a male stranger

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noun

the US word for jemmy

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Origin of jimmy¹

1840–50; generic use of Jimmy; jack ¹

Origin of jimmy²

1835–45; rhyming slang; Jimmy (Grant), for immigrant

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One day, while held alone in the jail’s recreation area, Field said, he heard the sound of a prisoner trying to jimmy his door.

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A ground crew member had managed to jimmy the window open, passenger Matt Rexroad told FOX5SanDiego.com.

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When those songs are stripped from their jimmied narratives and returned to their native format as recordings, they devolve into something peculiar: greatest hits tribute albums.

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“You sort of know that when you take a crowbar to a side door of Westminster Abbey and jimmy the lock that there really isn’t any going back, don’t you?”

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I pull out the calibration tool and jimmy it under the lower edge of the cover.

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