jagger

See also: Jagger

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæɡə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From jag +‎ -er.

Noun

jagger (plural jaggers)

1. carrier, carter
2. peddler, hawker
   • 1821, Sir Walter Scott, The Pirate:

     The jagger, with those green, goggling, and gain-descrying kind of optics, which we have already described, continued gazing for an instant after the customer, who treated his wares with such irreverence.

3. A jagging iron used for crimping pies, cakes, etc.
4. A toothed chisel.
5. Synonym of jag (“thorn from a bush”).
   • 2011, Larry Enright, A King in a Court of Fools:

     I don't know if you've ever gotten close to a jagger bush, but those stickers can be pretty mean.

   • 2011- , Chris Preksta, Curt Wootton, Pittsburgh Dad: Everything Your Dad Has Said to You

     How about we play The Store is a jagger bush and you don't touch nothing.

References

• “jagger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

Blend of jaguar +‎ tiger.

Noun

jagger (plural jaggers)

1. The offspring of a male jaguar and a female tiger.