jimmy

A ground crew member had managed to jimmy the window open, passenger Matt Rexroad told FOX5SanDiego.com.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2023

“Unfortunately, inside of our system in certain units, our detainees have the ability to jimmy their locks,” Edwards said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2021

“Imagine the idea of the American government convincing a foreign manufacturer to jimmy equipment in its favor,” the history says.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2020

He is a prop, there merely to jimmy Abasiama into conflict with forces he has nothing to do with: the deceased Disciple and the noisy house itself.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2019

And I’ve seen you litter, too. jimmy snyder.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer

She fashioned little carts of coke — the hard coal used to heat ore — using jimmies and dragées.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2022

As if under an enchantment, Allery wanders back to the plant, where he jimmies the lock and completes a day of work alone.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2020

The real deal is a pro-biotic, slightly sour dessert that no amount of jimmies can make palatable, at least to me.

From Time ● Aug. 3, 2010

Instead of a bushel, we’d shoot to catch a dozen or dozen and a half of good jimmies, enough for lunch.

From Washington Post

Someone jimmies the door open a little wider, and half of her next-door neighbor’s face appears.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

I had to use the trunk opener inside the glove compartment, which, of course, had been jimmied open, and I kept closed with duct tape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

In their video, posted Friday, the structure is jimmied into place under cover of darkness while one man shouts, “You can’t bring me down!”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2020

They peered at the famous door that was jimmied during the Watergate burglary.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2019

They quickly jimmied the door open, popped the trunk and rescued a Brazilian couple, boyfriend and girlfriend, who’d paid $20,000 a piece to be smuggled to New York.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 27, 2019

Maddy, last out of the elevator, had jimmied its door open with a powerjack.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

By now, Zhao’s at it again with the crowbar, jimmying our hearts open for one last tearjerk.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025

But in jimmying the original into a more serious musical format as it proceeds, it achieves only a middling geniality.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022

“I wasn’t really thinking about the fight at the time,” Forsyth said of his moments jimmying his way into the FBI office.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2021

Mercifully, the show mostly avoids the usual jukebox pitfall of jimmying in songs to reflect the plot in literal ways.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2019

Cope was caught at one point jimmying open crates that belonged to Marsh.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson