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jig
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS VERB dance ▪ Sometimes one of them would leap to his feet and dance a jig before falling over. ▪ There, all alone in his dark deep room of rock, Tarantula danced a jig. ▪ We danced a little jig around the food, hardly believing our luck. ▪ Did we laugh and celebrate and dance a hundred jigs? ▪ A girl his age was dancing a jig to the music. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Also, you can use this jig if you are taking your posts down and placing them on sawhorses. ▪ But I know if I ever get married, the jig is up. ▪ Fish the northern side of Bird Island with jigs tipped with minnows at dawn for best results. ▪ For this I use a fairly simple jig and accurate setting of the saw. ▪ If you build your jig slightly larger than your posts it will slide up and down more easily. ▪ Sometimes one of them would leap to his feet and dance a jig before falling over. II. verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Dexter jigged his toes on the floor of Blanche's office, impatient for the night to slip away quickly. ▪ In the second operation the cross truss frames, having been previously jigged together, were assembled in the frame. ▪ Long black leather chairs invited you to lay back, headphones on, and just jig about to music of your choice. ▪ Margaret Trudeau jigging in rolled-up slacks. ▪ No-one cared that she jacked in to the lock on the tutor's door, feeling around mentally to jig it open. ▪ The houses joined in, sluggishly flirting their bellies at him, growing blacker as he jigged onward. ▪ Under the table his feet jig on their soles. ▪ You keep a straight course, let him jig around you.
jig
I. jig1 /dʒɪɡ/ noun [COUNTABLE] 1. a type of quick dance, or a piece of music for this dance
2. a piece of equipment for holding a tool, a piece of wood etc in position
II. jig2 verb (past tense and past participle jigged, present participle jigging) [INTRANSITIVE ALWAYS + ADVERB/PREPOSITION] [date : 1500-1600; Origin : Probably from French giguer 'to dance', from Old French gigue 'violin'] to dance or move up and down with quick short movements
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