To move briskly, especially as a dance.
To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
To sing to the tune of a jig.
To fish with a jig.
To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
To move the body in a sexually suggestive twisting or gyrating fashion, especially as a dance.
To twitch or jerk.
A fitful movement similar to a twitch or jerk.
A dance involving sexual movements of the hips and buttocks.
An abrupt call, such as that made by the California quail.