h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've never heard on alleyway called a jigger before. I grew up 'over the water' and we called them entries.

a jigger is liverpool slang for an Entry,(in Glasgow)they call it a close, my friend, spud murphy and i where once chased,down a jigger by "johny green teeth" a local gentleman (i use that term loosly)whos teeth where more green than white, this chase was instigated by spud and myself informining, "johny green teeth" of his lack of oral hygene the chase was like a three leggy rase as spud had a cast on his leg from his ancle to above his knee,we where 10 and eleven at the time johny was an old guy of about 45,it was quite a chase as the "jigger"was about 70 houses long with one entry going in one in the middle.the exit was open ended ,even with our handy cap we left johny in the dust,

They're 'jitties' in Derbyshire, which is close.

It must be quite an archaic term as we never called them jiggers.

Would this be the same as the Lancastrian 'ginnel'?

I always thought it was a dole payment. The rest of it is pretty accurate though. First entry I have checked out la.

I grew up in Bootle in the 30@s and knew 'entries' as jiggers. In fact the local bopbby was known as "jigger Mike" because of his habit of hiding in the jiggers awaiting naughty boys!
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where we were brought up in walton(in the shadow of goodison park) jigers were the narrow entries and growlers were the wide ones you could play footy in