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Jimmy   /dʒˈɪmi/   Listen
noun
Jimmy  n.  (pl. jimmies)  (Written also jemmy)  A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors.



jimmy  n.  (pl. jimmies)  An immigrant. (Australian slang)



verb
jimmy  v. t.  (past & past part. jimmied; pres. part. jimmying)  To pry open (a door, window, etc.) with a jimmy or similar device; often used with open; as, the burglar jimmied open the back door and stole the TV set.






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"Jimmy" Quotes from Famous Books



... with a pack on his broad back, swung from the Jumping Jimmy trail into the clearing of Swamp's End, ceasing only then his high, vibrant song, and came striding down the huddled street, a big man in rare humour with life, labour and the night. A shadow—not John Fairmeadow's shadow—was in cautious ...
— Christmas Eve at Swamp's End • Norman Duncan

... beyond a faint, supercilious smile as they passed with eyes straight ahead. I knew what it meant, what they were thinking—that the "Bucket-Shop King," as the newspapers had dubbed me, was trying to use old Ellersly's necessities as a "jimmy" and "break into society." When the curtain went down for the last intermission, two young men appeared; I did not get up as I had before, but stuck to my seat—I had reached that point at which ...
— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips

... somethin' a cat finds an' lugs home for you to brush up,—an' goodness knows Mrs. Fisher don't look happy an' she ain't happy neither, for she told me herself yesterday as since Mr. Fisher had got this new idea of developin' his chest with Japanese Jimmy Jig-songs, an' takin' a cold plunge in the slop jar every mornin', that life hadn't been worth livin' for the wall paper in her room. She ain't got no sympathy with chest developin' an' Japanese ...
— Susan Clegg and a Man in the House • Anne Warner

... Tammany men live on their salaries?" Jimmy inquired. "Wake up! This is your chance to horn into the real herd. In New York politics is a vocation; up here it's a vacation- -everybody tries it once, like music lessons. If you'd been hooked up with ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach

... 'Jimmy? He only wanted to know if you 'ad any telegrams to send. 'E'll go anywhere so long as 'tisn't across running water. That gives 'im 'is seizures. Even talkin' about it for fun like makes ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling


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