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jim

verbnounnounnouncommon in dialogue

  • United States

To jimmy (something); to mess up or mess with (something).

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo jimmy (something); to mess up or mess with (something).

Etymology

Clipping of jimmy.

noun

  1. 1

    A one-pound banknote.

    He was tearin' ratty t' raise another jim.

Etymology

Clipping of Jimmy O'Goblin, rhyming slang for sovereign.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of jeemAlternative form of jeem (“Arabic letter”).

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of gymAlternative form of gym

Forms

plural
jims
past tense
jimmed
past participle
jimmed
present participle
jimming
third person singular
jims
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).