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Yes, jig is playable

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"Jig" Definition

noun

A device for guiding a tool or for holding machine work in place.
A joke or trick. Used chiefly in the phrase The jig is up.
A typically metal fishing lure with one or more hooks, usually deployed with a jiggling motion on or near the bottom.
An apparatus for cleaning or separating crushed ore by agitation in water.
Any of various lively dances in triple time.

idiom

In jig time Informal Very quickly; rapidly.

verb-transitive

To bob or jerk (something) up and down or to and fro.
To machine (an object) with the aid of a jig.
To separate or clean (ore) by shaking a jig.

verb-intransitive

To dance or play a jig.
To move or bob up and down jerkily and rapidly.
To operate a jig.

verb

To move with rapid jerky motions.
To dance a jig.
To fish with a jig.
To dance in the rapid lively manner of a jig.
To give a rapid jerky motion to.

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