jog

An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.

A sudden push or nudge.

• Even when I gave her a jog with my elbow, she kept staring at her French book. Even when I gave her a nudge with my knee, she kept ignoring me.

A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.

• This angle is somewhat more acute than that of the right and left walls of the Western box set; but unlike the walls of the box set, the Kabuki wall is never broken up by a jog or by a succession of jogs.

In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.

To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.transitive

• jog one's elbow
• c. 1593, John Donne, Satire I, Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, and cryes: Do you see Yonder well favoured youth? Oh, ’tis hee That dances so divinely

To shake, stir or rouse.transitive

• I tried desperately to jog my memory.

To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.intransitive

• 1673, John Milton, “Another on the same” preceded by “On the University Carrier, who sickn’d in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague” referring to Thomas Hobson, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions

To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.intransitive

• I saw her jogging in the forest yesterday.

To cause to move at an energetic trot.transitive

• to jog a horse

To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.transitive