as in gadget
an interesting and often novel device with a practical use
a kitchen store filled with neat little jiggers that you didn't know you needed
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Recent Examples of jigger
The kit comes with a julep strainer, a stainless steel jigger, a stainless steel bar spoon, and a 1-pint mixing glass made of heavy Japanese diamond-cut glass.
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Michael Calore, Wired News, 25 Nov. 2025
The set has a bottle opener, jigger, spoon, and spring strainer, all of which fit neatly into the wood block base.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Nov. 2025
Add a touch of orange zest, a jigger of brandy, some butter and cream, anything that says the holidays.
—Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2025
The jigger, bottle opener, and bar spoon are all double-sided.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 23 July 2025
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Michael Calore, Wired News, 25 Nov. 2025
The set has a bottle opener, jigger, spoon, and spring strainer, all of which fit neatly into the wood block base.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Nov. 2025
Add a touch of orange zest, a jigger of brandy, some butter and cream, anything that says the holidays.
—Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2025
The jigger, bottle opener, and bar spoon are all double-sided.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 23 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jigger
Noun
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Among the machines in my regular rotation are a single-pint gadget and a 2-quart canister model (that’s the kind with the frozen bowl).—
Mark Marino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
6 Jan. 2026
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The little shop’s name comes from the quartermaster character, Q, who provides the gadgets and, more to the point, Aston Martin cars for James Bond in the famous movies.—
Peter Valdes-Dapena,
CNN Money,
6 Jan. 2026
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Gardening Tools Garden tools should be cleaned after every use to remove fungi, bacteria, and pests that can be transferred to healthy plants.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
9 Jan. 2026
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And keep your in-flight essentials like headphones, sleep mask, e-reader, and other tech tools together in your personal item that stays with you at the seat rather than in the overhead bin.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Jan. 2026
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His hair-trigger homemade contraption pressured all three major networks into giving Kiritsis airtime to explain his grievances to the public.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Modified from machines used by Planters factories to wrap peanuts, this contraption envelops 5,000 MetroCards every hour—or more than one every second.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
31 Dec. 2025
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“Jigger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jigger. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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