jimmy

/ˈd͡ʒɪmi/

name 4noun 2verb 1

Collocations

ADJ.

easy, favorite, junior, living, ready

My favorite jimmy was the one my dad gave me for my sixteenth birthday.

VERB + JIMMY

call, named, say, went

My dad went jimmy when he found out I'd crashed the car.

JIMMY + NOUN

breakfast, cajole, carter, diesel, everything, hogs, letter

He jimmied the locked door open with a screwdriver to get inside.

PREP.

about, in, on, on

He jimmied about in the toolbox looking for a screwdriver.

ADV.

badly, often

He often jimmied open the old filing cabinet to find important documents.

Definitions

name

A diminutive of the male given names James or Jim, also used as a formal given name.

Heaven only knows why a man with a strong biblical name like James wants to be a president named Jimmy.

The other living ex-presidents are Jimmy Carter, who has been in hospice care for over a year, and George W. Bush, who is very friendly with both Obama and Clinton, but as a Republican is unlikely to campaign for Biden even given his disdain for Trump’s contempt for democracy.

A colloquial (potentially unfriendly or disparaging) way of addressing any male whose name is unknown to the speaker.

noun

Shortened form of Jimmy Riddle, a piddle, a piss.

Alternative form of jimmy (“a mature male crab”).

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 Jimmy diesel

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.

Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June In a Kenworth pullin' logs. Cab-over Pete with a reefer on And a Jimmy haulin' hogs.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a short crowbar

jemmy

verb — to move or force, especially in an effort to get something o

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Heaven only knows why a man with a strong biblical name like James wants to be a president named Jimmy.

Wiktionary

The other living ex-presidents are Jimmy Carter, who has been in hospice care for over a year, and George W. Bush, who is very friendly with both Obama and Clinton, but as a Republican is unlikely to

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a Jimmy diesel

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Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June In a Kenworth pullin' logs. Cab-over Pete with a reefer on And a Jimmy haulin' hogs.

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The kitchen window had been jimmied.

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Jimmy tried to cajole his parents into letting him drive across the country with his friends.

Tatoeba · #1993

Usage Notes

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In some senses, jimmy is marked as informal, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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