jagger

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/ˈd͡ʒæɡə(ɹ)/

noun

carrier, carter

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Meanings

jagger1

nounjagger (plural jaggers)

plural jaggers

  1. peddler, hawker

    The jagger, with those green, goggling, and gain-descrying kind of optics, which we have already described, continued gazing for an instant after the customer, who treated his wares with such irreverence.

    1821, Sir Walter Scott, The Pirate
  2. A jagging iron used for crimping pies, cakes, etc.
  3. A toothed chisel.
  4. Synonym of jag (“thorn from a bush”).

    2011- , Chris Preksta, Curt Wootton, Pittsburgh Dad: Everything Your Dad Has Said to You How about we play The Store is a jagger bush and you don't touch nothing.

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    I don't know if you've ever gotten close to a jagger bush, but those stickers can be pretty mean.

    2011, Larry Enright, A King in a Court of Fools

    Synonyms: jag

jagger2

nounjagger (plural jaggers)

plural jaggers

  1. The offspring of a male jaguar and a female tiger.

Jagger3

proper noun
  1. A surname originating as an occupation.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of jag (“thorn from a bush”).

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Origin

Jagger · proper noun

Occupational surname from Yorkshire, jagger (“peddler”). The modern given name use is partly after Mick Jagger.

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APA

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Chicago

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