Jigger

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The term jigger may refer to:

• A traditional Newfoundland unbaited weighted hook, often designed like a small fish, used with a line to catch larger fish by giving a sharp, upward jerk.
• An ethnic slur for black people; see List of ethnic slurs#J
• A Handcar, a hand-operated railway car
• A Jigger (bartending), a measure of alcoholic beverage ingredients, and the tool used to measure them.
• A jigger flea or chigoe flea, a parasitic arthropod found in tropical climates
• A jigger mast or jiggermast, the aftmost mast of a four-masted sailing ship.
• A machine used in the production of ceramics such as pottery
• The owner of Panathinaikos FC Giannis Vardinogiannis, a former rally driver under the alias "Jigger"
• An alleyway in Liverpool
• The sculpture of a coal miner in Brownhills
• A small town in Louisiana

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