as in to pry
to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a lever
let's try to jimmy the door lock with my credit card
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Recent Examples of jimmy
In the end, staff at the Capitol had to hire a safecracker and jimmy the thing.
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Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
If anything, the minor charges within them could well have been used to corroborate the boys’ claims that their only plan that day had been to jimmy open some arcade machines.
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Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
In a surveillance video released by authorities, Robinson allegedly darts across the roof after firing the single shot, jimmies down to a ledge and jumps to the grass below.
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Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
If anything, the minor charges within them could well have been used to corroborate the boys’ claims that their only plan that day had been to jimmy open some arcade machines.
—
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
In a surveillance video released by authorities, Robinson allegedly darts across the roof after firing the single shot, jimmies down to a ledge and jumps to the grass below.
—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jimmy
pull
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Fire alarms sounded after a resident pulled the alarm, prompting crews to evacuate buildings as a precaution.
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Sorloth played high, facilitating Arsenal midfielder Martin Odegaard to rotate wide and pull deeper to get on the ball.
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“Jimmy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jimmy. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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