jimmies

noun

1. Usually jimmies. sprinkle(def 10).

noun, plural jim·mies.

1. a short crowbar.
2. a large male crab, especially of Chesapeake Bay.

verb (used with object), jim·mied, jim·my·ing.

3. to force open (a door, window, etc.) with a jimmy: The burglar got in by jimmying the back door.

noun, plural jim·mies. Australian Slang.

1. an immigrant.

noun

1. a male given name, form of James.

noun, verb plural -mies or -mies, -mying or -mied

1. the US word for jemmy

noun

1. Central Scot slang an informal term of address to a male stranger

n.

bits of candy as ice cream topping, by 1963, American English.

n.

“burglar’s crowbar,” 1848, variant of jemmy, name for a type of crowbar much used by burglars, special use of Jemmy, familiar form of proper name James (also see jack).

v.

1893, from jimmy (n.). Related: Jimmied; jimmying.