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jig

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of jig

a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end

okay, buster, the jig is up

Synonyms of jig

artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, juggle, knack, play, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, trick, wile

Words Related to jig

bluff, end run, feint

cheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery

fraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindle

blind, front, smoke screen

Phrases Synonymous with jig

sleight of hand

jig

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of jig

to make jerky or restless movements

the mother could tell that her little boy had to use the bathroom because he was jigging

Synonyms of jig

fiddle, fidget, jerk, jiggle, squiggle, squirm, thrash, thresh, toss, twist, twitch, wiggle, wriggle, writhe

Words Related to jig

flit, flutter, twitter

quake, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, tremble

Near Antonyms of jig

relax, rest, unwind

calm (down), still

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