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• n  a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
• n  any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
• n  larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation

• Henry's jigger is his beautiful wife Katy.
• Devoured at one gulp, Keep It Crisp is likely to prove as indigestible as a jigger of hydrochloric acid.
• Another nurse entered with a jigger of medicine and a glass of water.

• shot glass
• pony
• jiggermast
• harvest mite
• chigger
• redbug

News & Articles

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• Argentina caught a Chinese ship trying to steal 180 tonnes of its squid
  An unlicensed Chinese jigger hoarding some 180 tonnes (200 tons) of fresh squid was caught fishing off of Argentina’s coast late on Tuesday (June 17). The country’s coast guard has since boarded and seized ...
  June 20, 2013 - Quartz via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Peter Falk in Arizona Daily Star
  When it got too late and the place emptied, the five of us stood around the piano listening to Tatum play,Falk writes. "Art liked his gin and usually had a jigger within reach. At one point he slid the jigger in my direction, saying, 'Help...
• Barack Obama in Chicago Sun-Times
  Because the off-the-shelf trusts were not satisfactory, "We tried to see if we could jigger it to make it work better," Obama said.
• Jomo Kenyatta in AllAfrica.com
  President Jomo Kenyatta said of the KPU, "I have heard that there is a jigger who wants to enter our foot. We, Kanu, shall trample on it like flour."