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Tools and machines

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Jigger (bartending) A shot glass is a glass (drinkware), glass originally designed to hold or measure distilled beverage, spirits or liquor, which is either imbibed straight from the glass ("a shot") or poured into a cocktail ("a drink"). An alcoholic beverage ser ...
, used to measure out a jigger (1.5 US fluid ounces) of liquor * Pallet jack, used to lift and move pallets * Hydraulic jigger, a hydraulically powered mechanical winch *
Ice jigger Ice is water frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 degrees Celsius or Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air, it can appear transparent or a more or less opaq ...
, used for setting fish nets under ice between two distant holes * Jigger, a machine for the shaping of clay body into flatware; see


Transportation

* Handcar (hand-operated) or railroad speeder (motorized), a railway car mostly used for maintenance *
Jiggermast The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat. Its purposes include carrying sails, spars, and derricks, and giving necessary height to a navigation l ...
, the aftmost mast of a four-masted sailing ship


Arts and entertainment

* "Jigger", a work by
Li Cheng (painter) Li Cheng (; 919–967), Courtesy name Xiánxī (咸熙), was a Chinese painter of the Song dynasty. He was influenced by Jing Hao, Juran. Life He is from Qingzhou (now part of Weifang, Shandong) during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms ...
(919–967) * Jigger, a large statue in Brownhills, West Midlands, England * Jigger Craigin, a character in the musical ''
Carousel A carousel or carrousel (mainly North American English), merry-go-round (List of sovereign states, international), roundabout (British English), or hurdy-gurdy (an old term in Australian English, in South Australia, SA) is a type of amusement ...
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Places

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Jigger, Louisiana Jigger is an unincorporated community in Franklin Parish, Louisiana, United States. Jigger is located on Louisiana Highway 128, five miles (8.0 kilometers) west-southwest of Gilbert. Jigger has a U.S. Postal Service The United States Post ...
, United States, an unincorporated community * Jigger, a local name for the settlement of South Tunbridge in
Tunbridge, Vermont Tunbridge is a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census the town population was 1,337. The town consists of three village centers, all situated on Vermont Route 110 in the valley of the first branch of ...
, United States *
Jigger Inn The Jigger Inn is a pub which overlooks the 17th Road Hole on the Old Course at St Andrews, Old Course in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Jigger Inn dates back to 1852 when it was the station master's lodge for the St Andrews (Old) railway station, St ...
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St Andrews, Scotland St Andrews ( la, S. Andrea(s); sco, Saunt Aundraes; gd, Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 , making it Fife's fourt ...
, a historic pub


People

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Jigger (nickname) As a nickname, Jigger may refer to: * Edwin Harlan (1886–1939), American football and baseball player, coach and attorney * Albert Jigger Johnson (1871–1935), American logging foreman * John Johnson, the second two-time Indianapolis 500-winnin ...
, a list of people * Jigger, a person who engages in jigging, i.e. fishing with a jig lure


Other uses

* '' Tunga penetrans'' or ''chigoe flea'', a tropical parasitic arthropod * Jigger, the inner button of a double-breasted coat or jacket * Jigger, an obsolete golf club that was a very low lofted iron with a shortened shaft


See also

* "The Jiggler", an episode of the TV series '' Adventure Time'' * Jiggerpole, a very long fishing pole used with a very short and very heavy line * Jigga, nickname of American rapper Jay-Z {{disambig