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Definition of Jimmies
1. Noun. Bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream.
Definition of Jimmies
1. Noun. (dialectal US usually plural) chocolate sprinkles used as a topping for ice cream, cookies, or cupcakes. ¹
2. Noun. (plural of jimmy) ¹
3. Verb. (third person singular of jimmy) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jimmies
1. jimmy [v] - See also: jimmy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jimmies
Literary usage of Jimmies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"By cutting through the dividing partition wall, ceiling, or floor, aided by
powerful jimmies, the bank-burglar and his assistants find no difficulty in ..."
2. Darkness and Daylight, Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1900)
"... a defect in vaults of his make, new designs are made to make them secure
against like attacks. SECTIONAL jimmies AND SKELETON KEYS TAKEN FROM BURGLARS. ..."
3. Special bulletin by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1914)
"An Act to amend the railroad law, in relation to coal jimmies and caboose cars.
... Coal jimmies and caboose cars. The use of cars known and designated as ..."
4. Report of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American by American Railway Master Mechanics' Association (1898)
"We had been basing our operations on the jimmies — working jimmies so long — that
we had to take so many jimmies. By and by the gondolas came in, ..."
5. The Revised Statutes of the State of New York: Together with All the Other by New York (State), Charles Avery Collin (1896)
"2922-2934. construed to authorize the interchange of such " coal jimmies " with,
and the use thereof upon, railroads of more than fifteen miles in length or ..."
6. Annual ReportLabor laws and legislation (1902)
"Coal jimmies.—That on and after the first ... the use of cars known and designated
as "coal jimmies" in any form shall be unlawful within the state, ..."
7. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1915)
"Coal jimmies and caboose cars.— The use of cars known and designated as "coal
jimmies" in any form and the use of any car as a caboose unless it shall have ..."
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