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name
A diminutive of the male given names James or Jim, also used as a formal given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A colloquial (potentially unfriendly or disparaging) way of addressing any male whose name is unknown to the speaker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
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name
A General Motors diesel truck or diesel locomotive, or the diesel engine thereof; (by extension) any GMC truck, even a gasoline-powered pickup or SUV.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A General Motors diesel truck or diesel locomotive, or the diesel engine thereof; (by extension) any GMC truck, even a gasoline-powered pickup or SUV.
A prime mover powered by a two-stroke Detroit Diesel engine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Shortened form of Jimmy Riddle, a piddle, a piss.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Cockney, slang
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Synonyms: piddle, pee, wee
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Alternative form of jimmy (“a mature male crab”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Sprinkles used as a topping for ice cream, cookies, or cupcakes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Maine, Mid-Atlantic, US, dialectal, plural, plural-only
Qualifier: Rhode Island; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Massachusetts
Synonyms: hundreds and thousands
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A marijuana cigarette.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bifta, bifter, blunt, bogie, bomber, bone, bun, Camberwell carrot, doink, doinker, doob, doober, doobie, exotic cheroot, fatty, giggle stick, hogger, hooter, J, jazz cigarette, jay, jimmy, joint, juju, left-handed cigarette, muggle, number, phattie, reefer, roach, spiff, spliff, toke tube, torpedo, zol, zoot
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A device used to circumvent a locking mechanism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: slim jim
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A jemmy; a crowbar used by burglars to open windows and doors.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
First Lieutenant (Executive Officer)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Qualifier: Royal Navy
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noun
A penis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad, choda, chode, chopper, cigar, cock, corey, crank, cucumber, custard launcher, D, dick, dicklet, diddle, diddly, dingaling, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dinger, dingle, dingus, dingy, dink, dinkle, dipstick, dirk, disco stick, dog bone, dong, donger, Donkey Kong, doodle, dork, down, fire hose, fuckpole, gherkin, hairy canary, hammer, hog, hot dog, hot rod, hoo-hoo, hooter, it, jade stalk, jamoke, jigger, jimmy, job, jock, johnson, John Thomas, joint, Jonathan, joystick, kielbasa, knob, lad, langer, lingam, love muscle, love stick, love truncheon, love sausage, love wand, machine, magnum, Master John Goodfellow, male member, manhood, man-meat, meat, meat puppet, meat rod, meat scepter, meatstick, meat stick, member, membrum virile, nature's scythe, nob, old chap, old fellow, one-eyed trouser snake, organ, package, pecker, peen, peener, pee-pee, pee-wee, pego, penis, Percy, peter, phallus, pickle, piece, piece of pork, pike, pillicock, pingas, pink cigar, pink oboe, pintle, pipe, pisser, piston, pizzle, plonker, pork sword, prick, pud, purple-headed yogurt slinger, putz, p-word, python, ramrod, rape tool, rod, root, rutter, salami, sausage, schlong, schmuck, sex tool, shaft, shlong, shmekl (q, colloquial, Yiddish), short arm, skin flute, snake, snausage, spitstick, stem, stretcher, sucker, swipe, tadger, tagger, tail, tallywhacker, tarse, thing, thingy, third leg, tic tac, todger, tool, trouser monkey, trouser snake, truncheon, tube steak, unit, virile member, wang, weapon, wee-wee, weenie, weeny, whang, wick, widgie, widdler, wiener, willie, willy, wingwang, winkle, winky, yard, ying-yang
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A condom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang
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Synonyms: jimmy cap, jimmy hat, condom, cum catcher, rubber
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Men's underwear.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
A male crab, especially a mature male; a cock. (Sometimes capitalized.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
Synonym of coal car.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dialectal
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Synonyms: coal car
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To pry (something, especially a lock) open with or as if with a crowbar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a short crowbar
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: jemmy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: crowbar, wrecking bar, pry, pry bar
verb
to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open:
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: pry, prise, prize, lever
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: open, open up
History
Etymology tree English Jim Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English Jimmy From Jim + -y.
From the initialism GM (/ˌd͡ʒiˈɛm/), by jocular alteration of sound playing on the diminutive given name.
* * (chocolate sprinkles): Unknown. There is much speculation that they were named after Jim Crow, but there is little, if any, evidence to support this theory.
Across languages
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
