": tiny rod-shaped bits of usually chocolate-flavored candy often sprinkled on ice cream":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To decorate the cookies, combine coarse and fine sanding sugars, with nonpareils, jimmies , dragees and candy pearls all in a single color palette, to give the cookies added depth and texture. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Dec. 2020",
"This set includes three bags of melts along with red, white and blue jimmies and silver stars. \u2014 Lesley Kennedy, CNN Underscored , 24 June 2020",
"This bright 4-ounce bestseller includes candy mermaid tails, sugar pearls and beads, jimmies and nonpareils. \u2014 Lesley Kennedy, CNN Underscored , 15 June 2020",
"The crispy pastry tube was overflowing with sweetened, whipped ricotta and dotted with chocolate jimmies . \u2014 Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com , 22 Sep. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1947, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
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"\u02c8ji-m\u0113z"
],
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"type":[
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]
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": a short crowbar":[],
": to force open with or as if with a jimmy":[
"the burglar jimmied a window"
]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The burglar used a jimmy to open the window.",
"Verb",
"let's try to jimmy the door lock with my credit card",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"And the whole home office thing worked for a while, but now the kids have figured out how to jimmy open the lock, and their new favorite activity is Zoom bombing. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 24 May 2020",
"These briny beauties taste of the sea in the best possible way; this is your chance to try them raw, stuffed, fried, frittered, in chowder, and on a stick dipped in chocolate and jimmies . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 10 Oct. 2019",
"Decorate cookie with a mix of green nonpareils and jimmies around the outer edge to mimic a wreath. \u2014 Nancy Stohs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 Dec. 2019",
"The high-yield bond market has the jimmy legs, and oil prices are down on weaker demand. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 15 Nov. 2018",
"The high-yield bond market has the jimmy legs, and oil prices are down on weaker demand. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 15 Nov. 2018",
"The crispy pastry tube was overflowing with sweetened, whipped ricotta and dotted with chocolate jimmies . \u2014 Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com , 22 Sep. 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Their minds still flash back a month to the sound of the thud on the bathroom floor and to jimmying open the door with a butter knife. \u2014 Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times , 24 Apr. 2020",
"Hopkins Commercial, the strip mall\u2019s owner, secured them after the storm, but on Wednesday, police said they\u2019d been jimmied open by copper-wire thieves and looters. \u2014 Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News , 30 Jan. 2020",
"Part of that legend includes new seating that already had generated complaints \u2014 season ticket holders say they\u2019re being asked to jimmy themselves into narrower space. \u2014 Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com , 20 July 2019",
"Andre Stanton, 28, ripped off the door handle to the cruiser despite being handcuffed with his hands behind his back and jimmied the lock open, police reports say. \u2014 Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com , 4 July 2019",
"On the video, according to the Key West police report, a man rides up to the bike rack on a tricycle, jimmies the lock and chain and then walk outs of view, only to return with a saw. \u2014 Gwen Filosa, miamiherald , 17 May 2018",
"The thief or thieves busted out the driver's side window and jimmied the ignition to drive off with Harbour's possessions. \u2014 Maureen C. Gilmer, Indianapolis Star , 28 Mar. 2018",
"And the Sabine material, jimmied into an art history class, feels for most of the play like footnotes. \u2014 Jesse Green, New York Times , 10 Sep. 2017",
"The power tools were located in the truck\u2019s side boxes, which had been jimmied . \u2014 Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 31 Oct. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1848, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1893, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
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"from the name Jimmy":"Noun"
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"\u02c8ji-m\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"lever",
"prize",
"pry"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-075909",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": rayless goldenrod":[]
},
"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"jimmies + weed":""
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"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115212",
"type":[
"noun"
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"jimp":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": barely , scarcely":[],
": neat and spruce":[],
": scanty , skimpy":[],
": slender and trim":[],
": to cut short : skimp":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":"Adjective"
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"\"",
"\u02c8jimp"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112505",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"transitive verb"
]
},
"jimsonweed":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a poisonous tall annual weed ( Datura stramonium ) of the nightshade family with rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers, and roundish prickly fruits":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ruis is suing the CHRB for absolving Baffert of a positive for scopolamine, a byproduct of jimsonweed , after Justify tested for the drug after winning the 2018 Santa Anita Derby. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 Oct. 2021",
"This looks like jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), also called thorn apple because of its spiky fruit. \u2014 oregonlive , 5 Oct. 2019",
"Their hunt, which was meant to shed light on the religious and ritualistic history of smoking, had already yielded tobacco and jimsonweed residue in pipes dating back a few hundred years. \u2014 Michael Price, Science | AAAS , 15 June 2018"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1832, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Jamestown , Virginia":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8jim-s\u0259n-\u02ccw\u0113d",
"\u02c8jim(p)-s\u0259n-\u02ccw\u0113d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112030",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"jimjams":{
"type":[
"noun plural",
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": jitters":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8jim-\u02ccjamz"
],
"synonyms":[
"butterflies",
"dither",
"heebie-jeebies",
"jitters",
"nerves",
"screaming meemies",
"shakes",
"shivers",
"whim-whams",
"willies"
],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"perhaps alteration of delirium tremens":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1852, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-044838"
},
"jiminy":{
"type":[
"interjection"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"alteration of gemini":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-051417"
},
"jimswinger":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a long-tailed coat":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8jim\u02ccswi\u014b\u0259(r)"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183916"
},
"Jim Thorpe":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"borough on the Lehigh River in eastern Pennsylvania formed in 1954 by the merger of the boroughs of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk to honor American Indian athlete Jim Thorpe population 4781":[]
": a short printed dash usually used to separate the decks of a newspaper headline, individual items under one newspaper heading, or separate stories dealing with one event if they follow each other in the same column":[]
