jigajig
Pidgin English and broadly informal slang for sexual intercourse.
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#1·Apr 28, 2026
Pidgin English and broadly informal slang for sexual intercourse. The term has been documented in a range of pidgin and contact-language contexts globally and carries a mildly comic or crude register. Often associated with prostitution in historical travel writing and colonial-era accounts.
The scene was played for uncomfortable laughs, the kind of colonial jigajig comedy that has not aged well.
Origin: Reduplicated form in pidgin English; the reduplication pattern is common for informal or taboo concepts across many pidgin languages. Editorial expansion authored on Slangora (model-assisted, hedged).
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
(slang, pidgin English) sexual intercourse.
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