Jig (disambiguation)

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A jig is a type of folk dance.

Jig may also refer to:

Manufacturing

Jig (tool), a device/frame used to control position or motion
Jigs, various methods of gravity separation in a coal preparation plant

Sports

Jig, a fishing lure used in the jigging method of fishing (angling)
"Jig", a nickname of Scottish footballer Lee McCulloch (born 1978)
Jig, an unwanted anxious/restless on the spot trotting motion of a horse

Entertainment

Jig (film), a 2011 British documentary
Jigs (band), a Swedish band
Jig, a variant of the children's card game snip snap snorem
Jay Is Games (J.I.G.), a game review website
Jig, the goblin protagonist of several fantasy novels by Jim C. Hines
Jig! was the name of a strategy game for the Newton MessagePad published by Dubl-Click Software in 1991.

Slang

Jig or Jigging, a verb for the act of truancy
The Jig is up. Meaning a dishonest action that has been uncovered and will not be continued

Other uses

Gigue (French), or jig in English, a fast dance movement from the Baroque Suite
George Cram Cook or Jig Cook (1873-1924), American theatre producer, director, playwright, novelist and poet
Hurricane Jig (1951), in the Atlantic Ocean
Jig, one of the sectors of Gold Beach during the World War II Normandy landings
Jig, the phonetic for the letter J in the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet
jig, ISO 639-3 code for the Jingulu language of Australia

See also

The jig is up (disambiguation)
Jig (theatre), 'dramatic' or 'farce' jig: a short, comic afterpiece in the playhouses of 16th and 17th century England.
James D. Ramage (1916-2012), American naval aviator and rear admiral nicknamed "Jig Dog"

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