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JIGGER

6 letters

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Classic 3 pts
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Super Big 3 pts

JIGGER is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

noun
  1. USA double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).
  2. USA measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.
  3. USslangA drink of whiskey.
  4. The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
  5. One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
  6. A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
  7. A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
  8. A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
  9. UKdatedslangA bicycle.
  10. datedslangAn automobile.
  11. datedA golf club used to play low flying shots to the putting green from short distances.
  12. A warehouse crane.
  13. A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
  14. A jiggermast.
  15. A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
  16. A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
  17. archaicOne who dances jigs; an odd-looking person.
  18. A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
  19. USA placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
  20. A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
  21. The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
  22. An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
  23. archaicA streetcar drawn by a single horse.
  24. archaicA kind of early electric cash register.
  25. AustraliaslangA total station or its predecessor, a theodolite.
  26. A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
  27. A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
  28. archaicslangA prison; a jail cell.
  29. dateddialectalAn alleyway separating the backs of two rows of houses.
  30. datedeuphemisticslangThe penis.
  31. euphemisticslangA vagina.
  32. UKobsoleteA door.
  33. slangAn illegal distillery.
  34. UKabbreviationellipsisslangEllipsis of jigger gun (“lock pick”).
verb
  1. transitiveTo alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended.
    • You'll have to jigger it from the original specifications to get it to work.
  2. transitiveTo use a jigger.
  3. transitiveTo move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball.
  4. obsoleteslangTo imprison.
  5. archaicslangTo confound; to damn.