Jimmying

He was caught before he had succeeded in 'jimmying' the door, so that the letter must have been delivered at the Collins house. ❋ Max Marcin (1913)

The pilots tried various procedures to loosen the landing gear -- such as jimmying the control lever back and forth, trying the manual release, and G-moves, a series of steep inclines and declines to jostle it loose.

It took a bit of jimmying to force the door, and inside we found piles and piles of of binders and dozens of black and white photos, all showing one man at various political events. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If I was "jimmying open" my front door and a cop showed up to see what was going on, I'd be grateful, respectful and provide identification. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This sparked a company-wide debate about jimmying with the database. ❋ Katherine Rosman (2011)

No more jimmying doors with a Slim Jim, bricks through windows, extracting lock cylinders with a dent puller, or hot-wiring ignitions. ❋ Robert Siciliano (2012)

That's not some kind of admission that you've been jimmying the lock on the archdiocese mailbox all these years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What the hell; after Rahm Emanuel finishes jimmying the census, election results from the phantom congressional districts ought to be just as reliable as those from the real ones. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I came of age at about the time the Watergate plumbers were jimmying open Daniel Ellsberg's safe and the lock on Frank Mankiewicz's office at the Watergate. ❋ Christopher Buckley (2010)

The door was locked, but he carried a credit card for jimmying door locks. ❋ Martin Cruz Smith (2010)

The president was quick to say he did not know all the facts, joking that if he was caught jimmying the lock on his new front door, at the White House, "I'd get shot." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The races of the adults who embraced the notion of "it takes a village" varied, the infractions did also -- loud cursing on the No. 6 bus, jimmying locks to make a short cut through private property -- the outcome of their actions usually did not. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If I were jimmying the lock on a newspaper box, you might have a case. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And yeah, I have discovered the same situation... strangers jimmying an apt door open. ❋ Tenured Radical (2009)

Nor can votes be switched from one candidate to another, as this would be as difficult as jimmying a mechanical typewriter to type the wrong letter. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But prying open the palace gates was a bit like jimmying Pandora's box. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The ‘yummy mummy’ (for that is indeed how the photos are captioned) is shown, variously, feeding what looks to be a 9 month-old baby French fries, carting exposed baby around in full sunlight with no hat or sunshade, and jimmying a very flash Philippe Starck for Maclaren stroller onto an escalator. ❋ Unknown (2006)

MAYOR MARK BOUGHTON, DANBURY, CONNECTICUT: There are some people jimmying (ph) people up on the sidelines, saying that there are all kinds of things that are going to happen with this program that frankly are not going to happen. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I [jimmied] my way to the top of that statistics on czaustralia, when i reached the top, I asked to join [xl]. After doing all that jimmying, [I wonder why] atomic said no? ❋ CZAustralia (2007)

Jimmy is an [incredible] [guy]. ❋ Becky Nickerson (2018)

wait [a sec] are u trying to [rustle my jimmies] None can [rustle] the Triumverate. ❋ Gorillamuncher (2012)

That [old man] has a very small Jimmy. [I just woke up] to see my Jimmy standing. [yay]. ❋ Castitties (2016)

[Look up to] Jimmie, he's [in charge] ❋ Haiden (Certified) (2015)

[Ina] JIMMY! Give him [little Jimmy]. [Jimmy whip]. Oh mah God its Jimmy! Campbell ❋ Jimmyguy12345 (2015)

"Do you want any [toppings] on your [ice cream]?" "Ya I'll have some [whip cream] and jimmies" ❋ Urbandickionary (2015)

I [picked up] a guy at the bar last night and he was [a Jimmy]! I called a [cab] before he woke up! ❋ Mandy Pavlov (2012)

After [Elwood] had been strumming Butters to the point of gushing her [vaginal fluids] everywhere she begged him to pull out [the Jimmy] on her. ❋ ScottElwood (2011)

I was [jimmying] around to clean the room but ended up [breaking] [everyting] ❋ Jimmeyder (2014)