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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



... my sorrows. My business has indeed been ruined, and I have passed through the bankruptcy court; but I am by no means so unfortunate as hundreds of people who have been reduced to absolute poverty by this crash. You remember my brother James—Uncle Jimmy? well, he has got a flourishing business in the West Indies. For some years past he had been meditating the establishment of an agency in connection with it in this city. The moment he heard of my failure ...
— Philosopher Jack • R.M. Ballantyne
... "Jimmy Reed's doing my work to-day," Sandy said apologetically. "And if you please, sir, I'll be keeping my hat on. I have just washed my hair, and I want ...
— Sandy • Alice Hegan Rice
... chief of state: President Jean Marie LEYE (since 2 March 1994) head of government: Prime Minister Donald KALPOKAS (since 30 March 1998); Deputy Prime Minister Willie JIMMY (since 19 October 1998) cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the prime minister, responsible to Parliament elections: president elected by an electoral college consisting of Parliament and the ...
— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... "Yes—Jimmy an' Eddie an' some of the others disappeared from the settlement this morning. The men're afraid they've run off to th' hills an' the ...
— One Martian Afternoon • Tom Leahy
... is; but it doesn't look like his mother. Can't be, in fact, for she has a baby to mind. I collared a lot of flannel out of a box in Aunt Juliet's room last 'hols' and gave it to her for the baby. It's a bit of what I gave her that was made into a sleeve for Jimmy's shirt. I wonder now who it is he ...
— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham


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