jimmy

A ground crew member had managed to jimmy the window open, passenger Matt Rexroad told FOX5SanDiego.com.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2023

“Unfortunately, inside of our system in certain units, our detainees have the ability to jimmy their locks,” Edwards said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2021

“Imagine the idea of the American government convincing a foreign manufacturer to jimmy equipment in its favor,” the history says.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2020

Without a trace of fondness, forward Jay Beagle remembers battling Oshie in the corners, trying to jimmy the puck free.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2016

“But one man trying to sponge Seabiscuit would have about as much chance as a kindergarten kid trying to jimmy his way into the United States mint with a fountain pen.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

She fashioned little carts of coke — the hard coal used to heat ore — using jimmies and dragées.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2022

As if under an enchantment, Allery wanders back to the plant, where he jimmies the lock and completes a day of work alone.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2020

The real deal is a pro-biotic, slightly sour dessert that no amount of jimmies can make palatable, at least to me.

From Time ● Aug. 3, 2010

After car rying them in a soft embrace during the mating ritual, jimmies form protective cages around the "sooks," or mature females, as they shed their old shells and wait for new skeletons to form.

From Time Magazine Archive

He jimmies it up a few inches but then immediately shuts it when he gets dust in his eye.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

I had to use the trunk opener inside the glove compartment, which, of course, had been jimmied open, and I kept closed with duct tape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

When those songs are stripped from their jimmied narratives and returned to their native format as recordings, they devolve into something peculiar: greatest hits tribute albums.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

In their video, posted Friday, the structure is jimmied into place under cover of darkness while one man shouts, “You can’t bring me down!”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2020

They peered at the famous door that was jimmied during the Watergate burglary.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2019

Retrieval had jimmied a hologram lead into the existing electricity sockets and were projecting an unbattered wall over the hole.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

By now, Zhao’s at it again with the crowbar, jimmying our hearts open for one last tearjerk.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025

But in jimmying the original into a more serious musical format as it proceeds, it achieves only a middling geniality.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022

“I wasn’t really thinking about the fight at the time,” Forsyth said of his moments jimmying his way into the FBI office.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2021

Mercifully, the show mostly avoids the usual jukebox pitfall of jimmying in songs to reflect the plot in literal ways.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2019

He reaches for my arm as I stalk down the path, frantically jimmying the stubborn gate until at once it bursts open.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse