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What is the noun for jig?

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jig
  1. (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
  2. (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
  3. (traditional English Morris dancing) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
  4. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
  5. A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
  6. (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
  7. (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
  8. (obsolete) A trick; a prank.
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  10. Examples:
    1. “Her boss danced a little jig and then rang to thank Larry.”
      “Oh, come on. Don't play games with me. Your little jig is up.”
jig
  1. (offensive) A black person
  2. (offensive) Any dark-skinned person (frequently an Arab or Middle Eastern person).
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Her boss danced a little jig and then rang to thank Larry.”
      “Oh, come on. Don't play games with me. Your little jig is up.”
jigging
  1. The act of dancing a jig.
  2. (mining) The act of using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water.
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