JIMMY Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

jimmy

verb

Definition of jimmy

as in to pry

to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a lever let's try to jimmy the door lock with my credit card

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Recent Examples of jimmy In the end, staff at the Capitol had to hire a safecracker and jimmy the thing. — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 Their minds still flash back a month to the sound of the thud on the bathroom floor and to jimmying open the door with a butter knife. — Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2020 Johns’ apartment was locked, but staff at the Apple Apartments jimmied the sliding glass patio door to get in. — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 June 2025 The four were on their way to steal quarters from a Manhattan video arcade by jimmying open the coin boxes with screwdrivers. — Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Mar. 2026 If anything, the minor charges within them could well have been used to corroborate the boys’ claims that their only plan that day had been to jimmy open some arcade machines. — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026 Enlarge / Infrared image of a person jimmying open a vehicle. — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023 In a surveillance video released by authorities, Robinson allegedly darts across the roof after firing the single shot, jimmies down to a ledge and jumps to the grass below. — Rick Jervis, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025 The district attorney repeatedly assailed the Police Department over the level of security in its evidence room, saying that officers had unfettered access through a gap in the wall and used a broomstick to jimmy a door. — Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025

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Fire alarms sounded after a resident pulled the alarm, prompting crews to evacuate buildings as a precaution.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
Sorloth played high, facilitating Arsenal midfielder Martin Odegaard to rotate wide and pull deeper to get on the ball.

— Liam Tharme, New York Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of pull

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