jimmy

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(chocolate sprinkles): Unknown. There is much speculation that they were named after Jim Crow, but there is little, if any, evidence to support this theory.

jimmy (plural jimmies)

(plural only, dialectal, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, Mid-Atlantic US) Sprinkles used as a topping for ice cream, cookies, or cupcakes.
Synonym: hundreds and thousands (UK)
(slang) A marijuana cigarette.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette
(informal) A device used to circumvent a locking mechanism.
Synonym: slim jim
(US) A jemmy; a crowbar used by burglars to open windows and doors.
(slang, Royal Navy) First Lieutenant (Executive Officer)
(US, slang) A penis.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis
(US, slang) A condom.
Synonyms: jimmy cap, jimmy hat; see also Thesaurus:condom
(slang) Men's underwear.
(rare) A male crab, especially a mature male; a cock. (Sometimes capitalized.)
Coordinate term: sook
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jimmy.
(US, dialectal) Synonym of coal car.

Because of their brown color, the apparently false etymology of jimmies having been named after Jim Crow has led some to consider the use of the term jimmies to refer to chocolate sprinkles to be offensive. However, many people who are either unaware of this theory or who agree it is false do not consider this an offensive term.[2]

jimmy (third-person singular simple present jimmies, present participle jimmying, simple past and past participle jimmied)

(transitive, informal) To pry (something, especially a lock) open with or as if with a crowbar.

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