Jigger may refer to:

Tools and machines

* Jigger (bartending), used to measure out a jigger (1.5 US fluid ounces) of liquor *

Pallet jack A pallet jack, also known as a pallet truck, pallet pump, pump truck, hand truck, scooter, dog, or jigger is a tool used to lift and move pallets. Pallet jacks are the most basic form of a forklift and are intended to move pallets within a ware ...

, used to lift and move pallets *

Hydraulic jigger A hydraulic jigger is a hydraulically-powered mechanical winch. From the mid-19th century, hydraulic power became available throughout the increasingly modern dockyards and warehouses. This was generated centrally and distributed by pipework, eit ...

, a hydraulically powered mechanical winch * Ice jigger, 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 A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind. It is mostly used as a railway ...

(hand-operated) or

railroad speeder A speeder (also known as a section car, railway motor car, putt-putt, track-maintenance car, crew car, jigger, trike, quad, trolley, inspection car, or a draisine) is a small railcar formerly used around the world by track inspectors and work cre ...

(motorized), a railway car mostly used for maintenance * Jiggermast, the aftmost mast of a four-masted sailing ship

Arts and entertainment

* "Jigger", a work by Li Cheng (painter) (919–967) * Jigger, a large statue in

Brownhills Brownhills is a town and former administrative centre in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England. A few miles south of Cannock Chase and close to the large Chasewater reservoir, it is northeast of Walsall, a similar dista ...

, West Midlands, England * Jigger Craigin, a character in the musical '' Carousel''

Places

* Jigger, Louisiana, United States, an unincorporated community * Jigger, a local name for the settlement of South Tunbridge; see

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, St Andrews, Scotland, an historic pub

People

* Jigger (nickname), a list of people * Jigger, a person who engages in

jigging Jigging is the practice of fishing with a jig, a type of weighted fishing lure. A jig consists of a heavy metal (typically lead) sinker with an attached fish hook that is usually obscured inside a soft lure or feather-like decorations. Jigs ...

, i.e. fishing with a jig lure

Other uses

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Tunga penetrans ''Tunga penetrans'' is a species of flea also known as the jigger, jigger flea, chigoe, chigo, chigoe flea, chigo flea, nigua, sand flea, or burrowing flea. It is a parasitic insect found in most tropical and sub-tropical climates. In its parasi ...

'' or ''chigoe flea'', a tropical parasitic arthropod * Jigger, the inner button of a

double-breasted A double-breasted garment is a coat, jacket, waistcoat, or dress with wide, overlapping front flaps which has on its front two symmetrical columns of buttons; by contrast, a single-breasted item has a narrow overlap and only one column of butt ...