Definition of "jimmy" []

• A short crowbar with curved ends. (noun)
• To pry (something) open with or as if with a jimmy: jimmy a door. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "For the first time ever, I'm interested in jimmy olsen."
• "He remembered the "jimmy" -- yet this would betray him, by the broken lock!"
• "And as he waited and watched, the lawyer, at his solicitation, invented for him a magic "jimmy" -- an instrument with which he could not only break through the outside door, but as easily force his way past the complex locks of the chambers inside."