The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word JIGS
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What does JIGS mean?
JIGS noun- A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dancing) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
- A trick; a prank.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- To fish with a jig.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- A black person.