What is Jiffy?
1.
A unit of time that is 1/100th of a second
I'll be back in a jiffy
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2.
The unit of time that is one jiffy cannot be defined relative to other units of time, it is separate, disassociated and different from the way other units are measured and experienced and cannot therefore be explained it terms of amount of time. For jiffy is time, in its raw form and is not like anything that we as humans can comprehend!
Thor: I'll be there in a jiffy.
Inconspicuous looking egg: That does not give me any indication as to how long you are going to be as jiffy is an indefinable period of time.
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3.
A jiffy is a unit of time: 0.0000000000033357 seconds or (3.3357x10^-11) or (3.3357 times 10 to the power of minus 11).
So named for the length it takes to travel a centimetre in a vaccum.
"I will be back in a jiffy!!"
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4.
Really short period of time.
(Unlike TTTM has mentioned as ranging from 1/1000th of a second to 5 minutes.) TTTM, 5 minutes are called 5 MINUTES, not jiffy. May be 5 minutes are jiffy for your age, but certainly its not the definition.
I'll come over in a jiffy.
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5.
A unit of time that ranges in value from 1/1000th of a second to 5 minutes.
TTTM said he would be over in a jiffy.
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6.
slang term for cocaine
Used in a song by Juelz Santana
"I'll be there in a jiffy w a bag full of jiffy, I aint talkin bout peanut butter either brother"
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Mitchell Utley's World Of Warcraft character
Dude did you see Jiffy?
Yea hes lvl 1,000,000,000
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