Jig (disambiguation)

The word jig may have different meanings:

* A jig is a type of folk dance.
* Jig/jigging, a school slang used for truancy
* Jig, or Jigaboo, is an insulting word for a black person
* A gigue is a baroque dance, sometimes anglicized as "jig".
* A jig (fishing) is a type of fishing lure
* Jigging (fishing) is a method of fishing with a fishing jig
* A jig (tool) is a handy tool, in woodworking, metalworking, etc. designed to control the position or motion of a tool or workpiece.
** A jig (jewellery) is a tool used to help in the making of jewellery.
** A pulse jig is a device that uses water and an upward pulsing action to separate materials of different settling velocities, used in gold mining and to separate wheat from chaff.
**Tapering jig in woodworking
**Staircase jig
**Sharpening jig
* Jig (novel) is a novel by Campbell Armstrong.
*Jig (adapter), an adapter for connecting electronic devices (e.g. mobile phones) to a service and maintenance system for testing, debugging and firmware update purposes. Jigs are typically custom-built for a specific device model, since the locations and shapes of the connectors vary from model to model.
* JIG (consisting of wajig and gjig) provides a simplified interface to many of the system administration tasks of Debian GNU/Linux.
* A trot in place, performed by a restless or anxious horse, is sometimes called a "jig" particularly when the motion is not desired.

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*Jay Is Games, a game review website.