verb
- forced open with a crowbar or similar tool
Usage: past tense of jimmy; chiefly British spelling
Examples
- The burglars jemmied the window to get inside.
- Police found that the door had been jemmied open.
- Someone jemmied the lock on the storage shed.
- The thieves jemmied their way into the building.
- Evidence showed the safe had been jemmied.
- The investigators discovered the car had been jemmied.