(n.) A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(2) With respect to Sir Jimmy, those who proclaim the age of the train rarely get it right.
(3) A further 19 hospitals are to be investigated over their links to allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile , the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt has said.
(4) "Among them are Mark and Jackie Barden, whose youngest son, Daniel, was killed in the shooting; Nicole Hockley, who lost her son Dylan; and Jimmy Greene, who lost his daughter Ana."
(5) Hopefully there can be some really great performances which will try to blow away the shadow that programme has caused.” But Kilty will face a strong field in the men’s 100m that includes five athletes who have gone under the 10 second barrier in 2015, including the Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut, the American Mike Rodgers and the evergreen Kim Collins.
(6) There seems to be unanimous political support,” said Jimmy Morales, Miami Beach city manager.
(7) And she met Jimmie Miller, better known later as the folk singer Ewan MacColl, who became her husband.
(8) He also established himself as a regular fixture on BBC TV's Top of the Pops, having been appointed as one of the original four presenters in 1964, alongside Jacobs, Pete Murray and Jimmy Savile.
(9) Was it Jimmy Goldsmith [the late financier] who said there is no such thing as a hostile takeover?
(10) The BBC has spent more than £5m of licence fee payers' money so far on internal investigations and inquiries relating to the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal.
(11) The BBC has become embroiled in a row with one of its longest-serving radio presenters on the day in which the broadcaster was heavily criticised by an independent inquiry for the way it had allowed stars like Jimmy Savile to abuse women and children for nearly 50 years.
(12) The extra attacker had been Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and he should have put Chelsea 2-1 in front in the 78th minute.
(13) Perhaps the recession will finally put the kibosh on all this vulgar Jimmy Choo-ing and Vera Wang-ing.
(14) In discussing the role of the United States in world politics, President Jimmy Carter described the changes in Europe as it prepares for unification into one economic bloc; the deteriorating conditions in the third world; the impact of the recent changes in communist countries; and the persistence of regional wars and civil disputes.
(15) He recalls, with admiration, the late Jimmy Reid , one of the leaders of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders eight-month work-in in 1971-72 – after a Conservative government initially refused to give the company, which had a full order book, a bridging loan to secure its future.
(16) From Springsteen to Jimmy Barnes, is any rocker safe from rightwingers?
(17) The BBC will also publish an independent assessment of its child protection measures in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, which led to the resignation of the previous director general, George Entwhistle, in 2012.
(18) A secret 10-day emergency process has culminated in the appointment of Royal Opera House chief executive Lord (Tony) Hall to the £450,000-a-year job of running the BBC , as the corporation turns to a former veteran to help begin the process of recovering from the Jimmy Savile and Newsnight crises.
(19) In his early career, Pharo said, he was sued by paedophile Jimmy Savile.
(20) He was forced to fly home from England's Euro 2012 camp in Poland last month following the death of his 49-year-old father Jimmy from throat cancer.