I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
dance
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Sometimes one of them would leap to his feet and dance a jig before falling over.
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There, all alone in his dark deep room of rock, Tarantula danced a jig .
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We danced a little jig around the food, hardly believing our luck.
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Did we laugh and celebrate and dance a hundred jigs ?
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A girl his age was dancing a jig to the music.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, you can use this jig if you are taking your posts down and placing them on sawhorses.
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But I know if I ever get married, the jig is up.
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Fish the northern side of Bird Island with jigs tipped with minnows at dawn for best results.
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For this I use a fairly simple jig and accurate setting of the saw.
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If you build your jig slightly larger than your posts it will slide up and down more easily.
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Sometimes one of them would leap to his feet and dance a jig before falling over.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dexter jigged his toes on the floor of Blanche's office, impatient for the night to slip away quickly.
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In the second operation the cross truss frames, having been previously jigged together, were assembled in the frame.
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Long black leather chairs invited you to lay back, headphones on, and just jig about to music of your choice.
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Margaret Trudeau jigging in rolled-up slacks.
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No-one cared that she jacked in to the lock on the tutor's door, feeling around mentally to jig it open.
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The houses joined in, sluggishly flirting their bellies at him, growing blacker as he jigged onward.
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Under the table his feet jig on their soles.
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You keep a straight course, let him jig around you.