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jimmy

verb as in pry open

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One day, while held alone in the jail’s recreation area, Field said, he heard the sound of a prisoner trying to jimmy his door.

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

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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.

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“You sort of know that when you take a crowbar to a side door of Westminster Abbey and jimmy the lock that there really isn’t any going back, don’t you?”

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I pull out the calibration tool and jimmy it under the lower edge of the cover.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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