jagger

See also: Jagger

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæɡə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

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. jag
   • 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.

Etymology 2

Blend of jaguar +‎ tiger

Noun

jagger (plural jaggers)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “jagger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)