jigs

Meaning of jigs

plural noun
  1. a lively dance with leaping movements.
  2. a device that holds a piece of work and guides the tool operating on it.
  3. a type of artificial bait that is jerked up and down through the water.
verb, 3rd person present
  1. dance a jig.
    he stood up and jigged in the cockpit
  2. equip (a factory or workshop) with a jig or jigs.
    the floor space was jigged and tooled to produce six fuselages a month
  3. fish with a jig.
    a man jigged for squid

mid 16th century: of unknown origin.

Information about jigs

  • The singular form of jigs is: jig.
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Hyphenation of jigs

jigs

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • jigs is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

jigs synonyms

Meaning move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce:

skip

Meaning (of a person) move by jumping on one foot:

hop

Meaning (of a person) walk or move around with ostentatious, exaggerated movements:

prance

Meaning skip or dance about in a lively or playful way:

caper

Meaning (with reference to an object, especially a ball) move quickly up, back, or away from a surface after hitting it:

bounce

Meaning (of a horse) perform a series of jumps on the hind legs:

curvet

Meaning act or behave in a jovial and exuberant fashion:

rollick

Meaning a movement performed in classical riding, in which the horse leaps from the ground and kicks out with its hind legs:

capriole

Meaning jolt or bounce:

jounce

Words that rhyme with jigs

jigajigs, thingamajigs, thingumajigs, rejigs, jigjigs, thingamyjigs, thingummyjigs

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