Definition of "jemmying" []

• Present participle of jemmy. (verb)

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• "You don't try to break into a bank by jemmying the front door."
• "The burglar climbed through an open sliding-glass window after jemmying open a security screen in Mr Miller's home in Gillingham Court, Kirwan."
• "Cos I work most nights until three or four in the morning, there was always some bastard jemmying the padlock off the doors: kids, dossers."