as in devices
a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end
okay, buster, the jig is up
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as in fidgets
to make jerky or restless movements
the mother could tell that her little boy had to use the bathroom because he was jigging
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Recent Examples of jigs
John Phillips,
Outdoor Life,
14 May 2026
The Emirates turned into a stage for unfettered jigs, pogos, salsas — whatever your dancing capabilities, anything went down a treat — as a club turned up the music and danced as one.
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Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
6 May 2026
Stripers in summer are too deep to reach with anything besides heavy jigs on downriggers.
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Bryan Hendricks,
Arkansas Online,
29 Mar. 2026
When a whitefish would circle our jigs, a loud crack would scare the skittish fish away.
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Robert Annis,
Outside,
24 Feb. 2026
Nunn provided derby participants with details on favorable trout rigs and bait, including Carolina rigs, PowerBait, mini jigs and spinners.
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Amy Stark Shireman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
And making and swapping jigs for every shape and size to reproduce items over and over gets really old, really fast.
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New Atlas,
14 Nov. 2025
Underneath this Adam Sandler comedy’s goofy jigs and fart jokes is a compilation of emotional horrors as potent as any jump scare.
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The Atlantic Culture Desk,
The Atlantic,
29 Oct. 2025
When the surface bite slows, Zaremba switches to bucktail jigs and Rat-L-Traps, which can be worked deeper.
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Steve Waters,
Miami Herald,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
Use marabou jigs, jigs tipped with one- to two-inch minnows and spoons for combing these deeper areas.
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John Phillips,
Outdoor Life,
14 May 2026
The Emirates turned into a stage for unfettered jigs, pogos, salsas — whatever your dancing capabilities, anything went down a treat — as a club turned up the music and danced as one.
—
Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
6 May 2026
Stripers in summer are too deep to reach with anything besides heavy jigs on downriggers.
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Bryan Hendricks,
Arkansas Online,
29 Mar. 2026
When a whitefish would circle our jigs, a loud crack would scare the skittish fish away.
—
Robert Annis,
Outside,
24 Feb. 2026
Nunn provided derby participants with details on favorable trout rigs and bait, including Carolina rigs, PowerBait, mini jigs and spinners.
—
Amy Stark Shireman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
And making and swapping jigs for every shape and size to reproduce items over and over gets really old, really fast.
—
New Atlas,
14 Nov. 2025
Underneath this Adam Sandler comedy’s goofy jigs and fart jokes is a compilation of emotional horrors as potent as any jump scare.
—
The Atlantic Culture Desk,
The Atlantic,
29 Oct. 2025
When the surface bite slows, Zaremba switches to bucktail jigs and Rat-L-Traps, which can be worked deeper.
—
Steve Waters,
Miami Herald,
10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jigs
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But none of that has happened, and Hamas rejected a new disarmament proposal in March that would force it to give up its tunnel network as well as rockets, heavy munitions, explosive devices and assault rifles before any Israel withdrawal.
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This one from Amazon is only $36 and can keep your devices charged for up to one week on a single charge.
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The man fidgets, shifts around in his seat and fixates on Zarutska before pulling out a small knife and striking her multiple times around her neck.
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They are accused of using several ruses to force their way into people’s homes, assaulting unsuspecting residents and holding them hostage for their own money, and demanding access to their crypto accounts.
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Kids will quickly see through her ruses.
Verb
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Persistent muscle twitches Everyone’s muscles twitch from time to time, usually at various locations.
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Some devices, for example, track eye movements or other small muscle twitches to let users select words from a screen.
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Twelve hundred conceptual categories showed up in just 490 papers and nowhere in the formal schemes, clustered in environmental drivers and ecological processes.
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New York officials say the unit is a national leader that targets complex, high-impact corporate schemes, and Attorney General Letitia James vows legal action, calling the cutoff an outrageous political attack.
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The contract model means that when Congress fiddles, it isn’t impacted.
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Meanwhile, Congress fiddles while structural defects in Medicare and Social Security threaten to engulf the programs.
Noun
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This month was all about the art choices—and a couple clever tricks, too.
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Consider the four tricks designers keep up their sleeves for this exact situation.
Verb
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This would avoid a repeat of the Champions League final in May, which saw Paris Saint-Germain win both coin tosses to decide the end they were taken from and their order.
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The unanimous appeals court decision tosses a February district court ruling that ordered the National Parks Service (NPS) to restore the panels that were removed from the site.
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