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- Synonym of diddley bow (“type of stringed instrument”).
- (dance) An uptempo jazz or swing dance which embellishes on the two-step pattern and frequently incorporates acrobatic style swing steps.
- (colloquial) A nervous or jittery person.
- (jazz) A jazz musician or aficionado.
- a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
noun
- An energetic and acrobatic late-1930s partner-based dance style, also known as jitterbug and lindy-hop.
- (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- (theater) In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- The act, or an instance, of swinging.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- a jaunty rhythm in music
- mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- changing location by moving back and forth
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
verb
- (intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways in its trajectory.
- (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To be sexually oriented.
- To turn in a different direction.
- (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
- (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- (intransitive, sex) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.
- (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
- (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
- (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- (transitive, slang) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- have a certain musical rhythm
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
- influence decisively
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- hang loosely
- alternate dramatically between high and low values
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
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- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- (uncountable) A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.
- (US, colloquial) Synonym of bullshit: patent nonsense, transparently deceptive talk.
- (US, colloquial, often derogatory) African-American Vernacular English.
- (uncountable) Swing, a style of jazz music.
- (uncountable) A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon.
noun
- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- 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.
- (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.
- (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.
verb
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To skip school or be truant.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
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- an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)
- (skydiving, informal) A large, organised skydiving event.
- (informal, US) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.
- (informal) A style of swing dance.
- (slang, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
- (informal) Any relatively energetic dance to pop or rock music.
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- Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
- The act of cheating a person.
- A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
- (derogatory, slang) A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
- (music) A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.
- a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees
- any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
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- To dance.
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- (intransitive, slang) To be confrontational.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To depart.
- (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- treat badly
- measure (distances) by pacing
- shift or move by taking a step
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- furnish with steps
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
noun
- (colloquial) A stepchild.
- (glassblowing) The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
- Stepping (style of dance)
- (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- (in the plural) A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- (colloquial) A stepsibling.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
- a musical interval of two semitones
- the distance covered by a step
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- relative position in a graded series
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- a short distance
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
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- (film, television) A red light near the door of a sound stage that flashes to indicate that cameras are rolling inside the stage and that all people and vehicles outside should remain quiet; a red-eye.
- (US, military, historical) A signal sent by waving a flag to and fro.
- (road transport) A device used to cause lamps installed on a motor vehicle, especially an emergency vehicle such as an ambulance or police car, to flash as a warning.
- (watchmaking) An instrument that creates a wigwagging motion for polishing.
- Any of a number of mechanical or electrical devices which cause a component to oscillate between two states.
- (road transport) A device with multiple (often two), alternately flashing lights which is installed at a railway level crossing (or grade crossing), a movable bridge, etc., to warn vehicular traffic to stop.
- (US, rail transport) A grade crossing signal with a swinging motion used to indicate an approaching train.
- A device that causes one or more lights to flash in a preset pattern.
- (road transport) A warning device inside the cabin of a truck that causes a mechanical arm to drop into view when the pressure in the airbrake system of the truck becomes too low for the brakes to be reliably deployed.
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- (US, military, historical) To send a signal by waving a flag to and fro.
- An act of wigwagging.
- To oscillate between two states.
- To move gently in one direction and then another; to wig or wiggle, to wag or waggle.
- send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code
- signal by or as if by a flag or light waved according to a code
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- (figuratively) A crime, especially an elaborate heist, or a narrative about such a crime.
- A prank or practical joke.
- A playful leap or jump.
- A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.
- (Scotland) The capercaillie.
- (usually in the plural) Playful behaviour.
- A plant of the genus Capparis.
- The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.
- A jump while dancing.
- any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- a playful leap or hop
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces
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- dance a shimmy
- tremble or shake
- (intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
- (intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
- (dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
- To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
- (intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
noun
- lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels)
- (rare) A sleeveless chemise.
- An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
- A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
noun
- A kind of Provençal dance.
- A tambourine dove (Turtur tympanistria).
- The music for this dance.
- A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
- a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides
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- (transitive, mathematics) To be in an equivalence relation with.
- (transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around.
- (intransitive) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.
- (transitive, computing) To flip or switch two adjacent bits (binary digits).
- manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner
- turn in a twisting or spinning motion
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- dance a clog dance
- fill to excess so that function is impaired
- impede with a clog or as if with a clog
- become or cause to become obstructed
- impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden
- coalesce or unite in a mass
- (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
noun
- a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
- footwear usually with wooden soles
- any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction
- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- A blockage.
- (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
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- (performing arts) A stage performance or striptease in which a female entertainer disrobes while dancing with large hand-held fans that are alternately used to conceal and provide glimpses of her erogenous body regions.
- (idiomatic, figurative, by extension) The incremental disclosure of tantalizing bits of information.
- (performing arts) A dance performance incorporating the artful use of fans.
- a solo dance in which large fans are manipulated to suggest or reveal nakedness
noun
- An illusional style of dance where one moves his or her body to the "tic" of the music creating a strobe or animated effect.
- A marking that occurs on some horses, involving white flecks of hair at the flank, and white hairs at the base of the tail, called a skunk tail or rabicano, sometimes referred to as birdcatcher ticks.
- A sound of something that ticks. (For example, the second hand on a clock face.)
- A strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses.
- a metallic tapping sound
- a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers
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- A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.
- (music) A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.
- (music) A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name.
- (music) A movement which is part of a longer musical composition such as a suite, sonata, or symphony which is inspired by and conforming to formal characteristics of the dance of same name.
- a stately court dance in the 17th century
- a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite
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- A shade of red-violet.
- (music, dance) A form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina).
- (figurative, colloquial) An unknown entity or contraption.
- An extravaganza; an instance of lavish and fantastical events or behavior.
- A gathering for dancing; a ball.
- (euphemistic) Vagina.
- A confusion; a chaotic collection.
- a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets
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- An energetic and acrobatic late-1930s partner-based dance style, also known as jitterbug and lindy-hop.
- (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- (theater) In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- The act, or an instance, of swinging.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- a jaunty rhythm in music
- mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- changing location by moving back and forth
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
verb
- (intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways in its trajectory.
- (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To be sexually oriented.
- To turn in a different direction.
- (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
- (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- (intransitive, sex) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.
- (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
- (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
- (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- (transitive, slang) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- have a certain musical rhythm
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
- influence decisively
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- hang loosely
- alternate dramatically between high and low values
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
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- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- 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.
- (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.
- (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.
verb
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To skip school or be truant.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
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- dance a shimmy
- tremble or shake
- (intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
- (intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
- (dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
- To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
- (intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
noun
- lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels)
- (rare) A sleeveless chemise.
- An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
- A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
noun
- A kind of Provençal dance.
- A tambourine dove (Turtur tympanistria).
- The music for this dance.
- A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
- a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides
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- (transitive, mathematics) To be in an equivalence relation with.
- (transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around.
- (intransitive) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.
- (transitive, computing) To flip or switch two adjacent bits (binary digits).
- manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner
- turn in a twisting or spinning motion
noun
- An illusional style of dance where one moves his or her body to the "tic" of the music creating a strobe or animated effect.
- A marking that occurs on some horses, involving white flecks of hair at the flank, and white hairs at the base of the tail, called a skunk tail or rabicano, sometimes referred to as birdcatcher ticks.
- A sound of something that ticks. (For example, the second hand on a clock face.)
- A strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses.
- a metallic tapping sound
- a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers
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- Synonym of diddley bow (“type of stringed instrument”).
- (dance) An uptempo jazz or swing dance which embellishes on the two-step pattern and frequently incorporates acrobatic style swing steps.
- (colloquial) A nervous or jittery person.
- (jazz) A jazz musician or aficionado.
- a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
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- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- (uncountable) A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.
- (US, colloquial) Synonym of bullshit: patent nonsense, transparently deceptive talk.
- (US, colloquial, often derogatory) African-American Vernacular English.
- (uncountable) Swing, a style of jazz music.
- (uncountable) A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon.
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- an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)
- (skydiving, informal) A large, organised skydiving event.
- (informal, US) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.
- (informal) A style of swing dance.
- (slang, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
- (informal) Any relatively energetic dance to pop or rock music.
noun
- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- 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.
- (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.
- (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.
verb
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To skip school or be truant.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
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- Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
- The act of cheating a person.
- A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
- (derogatory, slang) A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
- (music) A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.
- a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees
- any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
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- To dance.
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- (intransitive, slang) To be confrontational.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To depart.
- (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- treat badly
- measure (distances) by pacing
- shift or move by taking a step
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- furnish with steps
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
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- (colloquial) A stepchild.
- (glassblowing) The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
- Stepping (style of dance)
- (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- (in the plural) A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- (colloquial) A stepsibling.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
- a musical interval of two semitones
- the distance covered by a step
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- relative position in a graded series
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- a short distance
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
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- (figuratively) A crime, especially an elaborate heist, or a narrative about such a crime.
- A prank or practical joke.
- A playful leap or jump.
- A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.
- (Scotland) The capercaillie.
- (usually in the plural) Playful behaviour.
- A plant of the genus Capparis.
- The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.
- A jump while dancing.
- any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- a playful leap or hop
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces
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- dance a shimmy
- tremble or shake
- (intransitive, video games) To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall.
- (intransitive, rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
- (dance) To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
- To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
- (intransitive) To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
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- lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels)
- (rare) A sleeveless chemise.
- An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
- A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
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- dance a clog dance
- fill to excess so that function is impaired
- impede with a clog or as if with a clog
- become or cause to become obstructed
- impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden
- coalesce or unite in a mass
- (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
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- a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
- footwear usually with wooden soles
- any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction
- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- A blockage.
- (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
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- (performing arts) A stage performance or striptease in which a female entertainer disrobes while dancing with large hand-held fans that are alternately used to conceal and provide glimpses of her erogenous body regions.
- (idiomatic, figurative, by extension) The incremental disclosure of tantalizing bits of information.
- (performing arts) A dance performance incorporating the artful use of fans.
- a solo dance in which large fans are manipulated to suggest or reveal nakedness
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- A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.
- (music) A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.
- (music) A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name.
- (music) A movement which is part of a longer musical composition such as a suite, sonata, or symphony which is inspired by and conforming to formal characteristics of the dance of same name.
- a stately court dance in the 17th century
- a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite
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- A shade of red-violet.
- (music, dance) A form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina).
- (figurative, colloquial) An unknown entity or contraption.
- An extravaganza; an instance of lavish and fantastical events or behavior.
- A gathering for dancing; a ball.
- (euphemistic) Vagina.
- A confusion; a chaotic collection.
- a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets
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- (film, television) A red light near the door of a sound stage that flashes to indicate that cameras are rolling inside the stage and that all people and vehicles outside should remain quiet; a red-eye.
- (US, military, historical) A signal sent by waving a flag to and fro.
- (road transport) A device used to cause lamps installed on a motor vehicle, especially an emergency vehicle such as an ambulance or police car, to flash as a warning.
- (watchmaking) An instrument that creates a wigwagging motion for polishing.
- Any of a number of mechanical or electrical devices which cause a component to oscillate between two states.
- (road transport) A device with multiple (often two), alternately flashing lights which is installed at a railway level crossing (or grade crossing), a movable bridge, etc., to warn vehicular traffic to stop.
- (US, rail transport) A grade crossing signal with a swinging motion used to indicate an approaching train.
- A device that causes one or more lights to flash in a preset pattern.
- (road transport) A warning device inside the cabin of a truck that causes a mechanical arm to drop into view when the pressure in the airbrake system of the truck becomes too low for the brakes to be reliably deployed.
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- (US, military, historical) To send a signal by waving a flag to and fro.
- An act of wigwagging.
- To oscillate between two states.
- To move gently in one direction and then another; to wig or wiggle, to wag or waggle.
- send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code
- signal by or as if by a flag or light waved according to a code