jig

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• Jig

  ·noun A small machine or handy tool. II. Jig ·vt To sing to the tune of a jig. III. Jig ·noun A li...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• jig

  A trick. A pleasant jig; a witty arch trick. Also a lock or door. The feather-bed jig; copulation. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• the jig is up

  i. e. the game is up; it is all over with me. The time was when I could cut pigeon wings, and perfo...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.