Usually means: Deceptive or dishonest manipulation or activity.
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  1. jiggery-pokery: Merriam-Webster
  2. jiggery-pokery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jiggery-pokery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jiggery-pokery, jiggery-pokery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jiggery-pokery: Vocabulary.com
  6. jiggery-pokery: Wordnik
  7. jiggery-pokery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jiggery-pokery: Wiktionary
  9. jiggery-pokery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jiggery-pokery: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. jiggery-pokery: Dictionary.com
  12. jiggery-pokery: Rhymezone
  13. jiggery-pokery: FreeDictionary.org
  14. jiggery-pokery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. jiggery-pokery: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Jiggery-pokery: World Wide Words

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  1. jiggery-pokery: Encyclopedia

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  1. jiggery-pokery: Idioms
  2. jiggery-pokery: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. jiggery-pokery: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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▸ noun:  Trickery or misrepresentation.
▸ noun:  Manipulation.
▸ noun:  (euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.

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skulduggery, skullduggery, trickery, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, slickness, jugglery, trickeration, humbuggery, trick, more...

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skulduggery, skullduggery, trickery, hanky panky, hocus-pocus, slickness, jugglery, trickeration, humbuggery, trick, more...



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