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The only meaning I knew was meaning "a back entryway between 2 back to back rows of houses"

JIGGER

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That’s 28 different meanings before we even discuss slang versions of the word.


a handcar, a hand-operated railway car
a jigger flea or chigoe flea, a parasitic arthropod found in tropical climates that may cause an inflammatory skin disease
a Liverpool term for an ‘alleyway’
a pallet jack
a surveyor’s total station (electronic theodolite)
a tool for setting fish gill nets under ice, made of wood and metal and operated via rope from the surface
in golf, an old metal golf club with a narrow face
a rest for a billiard cue
a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; one who jigs (verb)
the actual sieve used in jigging ore
an Irish dancer: dancer of jigs and reels
in textiles, it’s a device used in the dyeing of cloth
in pottery, the horizontal lathe used in producing flatware
a pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather
a light all-purpose tackle
a small sail set in the stern of a yawl or similar boat
a boat having such a sail
a jigger mast
a small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl
any of a number of mechanical devices having a vibratory or jerking motion
a type of hydraulic lift in which a hydraulic ram operates the lift through a block and tackle which increases the length of the stroke
a device or thing the name of which is unknown or temporarily forgotten
a small tackle consisting of a double and single block with a rope
a small glass, especially for whisky, with a capacity of about one and a half ounces
a cigarette
a gadget

As a Verb
To alter or adjust, particularly in ways not originally intended
Rearrange or tamper with, e.g. conventional price indexes often jigger the market basket’s

The Guinness Records show the verb "set".



For jigger there is also common use of "jiggered" (=broken/damaged/worn-out/tired) which may have an equivalent use of "jigger" eg If I climbed that hill it would jigger me.

I've also heard the jigger used as an alternative name for a podger but I've also heard jiggler so it may be just a mistake/misuse, there are a lot of made up or borrowed words in scaffolding, perhaps less so these days.