Usually means: Dance involving lively, rhythmic steps.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word jig:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. jig: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. jig: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jig, jig: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jig: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jig: Vocabulary.com
  6. jig: Wordnik
  7. jig: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jig: Wiktionary
  9. jig: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jig: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jig: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Jig, jig: Dictionary.com
  13. jig: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jig: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Jig (card game), Jig (dance), Jig (disambiguation), Jig (film), Jig (fishing), Jig (theatre), Jig (tool), Jig: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Jig: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. jig: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. jig: Rhymezone
  19. jig: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. jig: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. jig: Free Dictionary
  22. jig: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Jig: The Word Detective
  24. jig: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beading Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Jig: Marquetry Glossary
  5. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Error-Proofing Terms (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jig (tool), jig: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. JIG: Acronym Finder
  2. JIG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. jig: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jig (offensive), Jig (offensive), Jig (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. jig, jig, jig, jig, jig, jig, jig, jig, jig, jig: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. jig: Colloquial Speech of Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada
  4. jig: The Folk File
  5. jig, the jig: Urban Dictionary

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. JIG: Mining Terms used in mid 1800's
  4. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  5. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  6. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  8. JIG: Industry Terms for Fiberglass
  9. Glossary of Woodworking Terms (No longer online)
  10. Jig: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

(Note: See jigged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
noun:  (traditional Irish music and dance) 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.
noun:  (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
noun:  (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
noun:  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.
noun:  (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
noun:  (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
noun:  (obsolete) A trick; a prank.
verb:  To move briskly, especially as a dance.
verb:  To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
verb:  (fishing) To fish with a jig.
verb:  To sing to the tune of a jig.
verb:  To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
verb:  (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
verb:  To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
verb:  To skip school or be truant (Australia, Canadian Maritimes)
noun:  (US, offensive, slang, dated, ethnic slur) A black person.
noun:  (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter J.

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