jig
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Maresca's relief was palpable as he danced a jubilant jig on the touchline.
From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025
On “Jaundice,” a stomping upbeat jig with accordion and saxophone reflecting Mr. Ellis’s interest in older folk forms, each drum hit bursts out of the speakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
But though they’re different in many respects, the two best friends can see right through each other, and there’s a clock ticking until the jig is up.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025
Great Britain and Ireland’s women danced an unbridled jig of delight, Niklas Norgaard choked back triumphant tears and Annabel Dimmock blinked in happy disbelief.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024
“Naw. No casting for stripers. You just drop it in the water off the side and then jig it. Move it up and down.”
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
The emotion flooded out as he jigged and wheeled across the green.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025
So his marbles smashed straight while the other boys’ jigged.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
When Jerzy Dudek jigged about during the 2005 Champions League final, his gentle, understated contortions put the fear of God into Andrea Pirlo.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2012
Already leading by two sets to none, he let out a sustained yawp, and jigged away on his heels, when he sealed the first break in the deciding third set with a reflex backhand winner.
From Reuters ● Jan. 24, 2010
The more I described my brother, my parents, our makeshift community before Dad left with the Council, the more I remembered, like the way my uncle jigged to heavy metal.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
The steady, rhythmic yank, then drop of the rod tip, makes this an active version of fishing called jigging.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2023
Through the darkness, I can make out a single figure casting and jigging at the end of the wooden walk.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
White bass are fair with slabs or jigging spoons working the main lake channel, drop-offs, and humps.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 20, 2021
White bass are fair with slabs or jigging spoons working main lake channel, drop-offs, and humps.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 13, 2021
Uncle George kept on jigging and Grandma kept on facing him, jigging too.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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