Library / English Dictionary

JEMMY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: jemmied   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short crowbar

Example:

in Britain they call a jimmy and jemmy

Synonyms:

jemmy; jimmy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("jemmy" is a kind of...):

crowbar; pry; pry bar; wrecking bar (a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge)

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