jiggle

plural jiggles

1. A relatively weak shaking movement; the condition or state of weakly shaking.

   Give the key a jiggle and see if it opens.

2. Titillating depictions of scantily-clad female bodies in motion, especially in action media genres.

   For all the talk that the show's success was based on "jiggle,” [Charlie's] Angels had a huge female viewership.

   2013 May 11, Cary O’Dell, June Cleaver Was a Feminist!: Reconsidering the Female Characters of Early Television, McFarland, →ISBN, page 148

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   […]Rollergirls, a situation comedy about an all-female roller derby team with a lecher- ous male manager. As the women, dressed in sports hot-pants, crashed into each other in the playing arena, the opportunities for jiggle were endless.

   1978, Year Book Covering the Year ...

   If freeway chases, fetishized tools, and weapons were not enough, wet T-shirt jiggle scenes with buxom starlets a la Charlie's Angels, could be pulled in front of the camera as filler, even in hour-long police dramas.

   2020 August 14, John T Caldwell, Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 88

present singular third person jiggles · participle present jiggling · participle past jiggled · past jiggled

1. transitiveTo shake something gently; to rattle or wiggle.

   Jiggle the handle and see if the water stops.

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   And I hope we jiggled a few of his convictions.

   1980 February 16, Nancy Walker, “You Can Go Home Again”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 29, page 12

   A hooker named Suzibelle Hickins // Found London and Cambridge fine pickin’s // She would jiggle her titties // As the tail of two cities, // That dirty and hot little Dickens!

   1993, Ronald L. Smith, “Limericks”, in Sexual Humor (Poetry), New York: S.P.I. Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 38

2. intransitiveTo shake, rattle, or wiggle.

   The jelly jiggled in the bowl for a few moments after it was set down.