Subj : Jiffy
To   : All
From : Dreamer
Date : Sat Feb 19 2011 08:42 am

  Re: Syntaxtic!
  By: Digital Man to Mindless Automaton on Fri Feb 18 2011 01:54 pm

 > Snapple "Real Fact" #70:
 > A "jiffy" is actually 1/100 of a second.

Just thought I'd throw this out there: has anyone actually looked this up? 
The best, most concise definition I found:

1) 1/100 of a second  2) one millisecond  3) approximately one nanosecond  
4) indeterminate time from a few seconds to forever

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/jiffy#ixzz1EPqg2EF5

'jiffy' has to be the most general word in the english language! ;)

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