jig

noun9

1. •
   A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
2. •
   A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.

   • They danced a jig.
3. •
   A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.

   • Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig.
4. •
   A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
5. •
   A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
6. •
   (slang, offensive) A black person.

   • “You got a new jig, huh?” The boy looked out at Jones through his swirls of oiled hair. “What happened to the last one? He die or something?” — 1963
7. •
   An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
8. •
   (no longer used) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.

   • A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme / Praised and applauded by a clamorous chime. — 1647
9. •
   (no longer used) A trick; a prank.

   • This Innovation? Is't not a fine Jigg? / A precious cunning in the late Protector / To shuffle a new Prince into the State. — 1635

verb8

1. •
   To move briskly, especially as a dance.

   • The guests were jigging around on the dance floor.
2. •
   To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.

   • the candle-flame stretched itself tall, and began jigging up and down. — 1891
3. •
   To fish with a jig.
4. •
   To skip school or be truant.
5. •
   To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

   • Make thy moan to ballad singers and rhymers ; they'll jig out thy wretchedness and abominations to new tunes — 1633
6. •
   To sing to the tune of a jig.
7. •
   To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
8. •
   To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.

noun1

1. •
   radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter J.