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say it: JIM-ee
jimmy is a noun and verb meaning "a short crowbar". It is pronounced /ˈdʒɪmi/ — JIM-ee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
“The burglar jimmied the lock”
“Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jimmy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.