Jigger may refer to:

Tools and machines

Jigger (bartending) A shot glass is a glass originally designed to hold or measure spirits or liquor, which is either imbibed straight from the glass ("a shot") or poured into a cocktail ("a drink"). An alcoholic beverage served in a shot glass and typically consu ...

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

Pallet jack A pallet jack, also known as a pallet truck or pallet pump, is a tool used to lift and move pallets. Pallet jacks are the most basic form of a forklift and are intended to move palletized loads within warehouses, distribution centers, retail s ...

, 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, ei ...

, 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, gandy dancer cart, platelayers' cart, draisine, or railbike) is a railroad car powered by its passengers or by people pushing t ...

(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 draisine) is a small railcar used around the world by track inspectors and work crews to move ...

(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 median line of a ship or boat. Its purposes include carrying sails, spars, and derricks, giving necessary height to a navigation light, ...

, 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 and Juran. Li Cheng, Fan Kuan, and Guan Tong became known as the "three great rival artists". Life Li Che ...

(919–967) * Jigger, a large statue in

Brownhills Brownhills is a historic market and industrial town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall of the West Midlands county, England. The town is located south of Cannock Chase and close to the large Chasewater reservoir, it is northeast of Walsa ...

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

Carousel A carousel or carrousel (mainly North American English), merry-go-round (International English), or galloper (British English) is a type of amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders. The seats are tradit ...

Places

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 ...

, 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 o ...

, United States * Jigger Inn, St Andrews, Scotland, a 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 metals, heavy metal (typically lead) fishing sinker, sinker with an attached fish hook that is usually obscured inside a soft plastic bai ...

, 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 b ...