I’m on the phone, but I’ll be with you in a jiffy.
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Some modern systems known as jiffy reefing or slab reefing have permanent lines running through the boom for purposes of reefing.
Aside from its unique plastic lemon containers usually known as jiffy lemons or jif lemons, it is also sold in bottles.
In jiffy reefing there is no need to tie to the boom at the reef cringles on the sail.
Jiffy could fly by lying horizontal and would fly other people out of trouble.
There are three common methods of reefing: conventional, roller, and jiffy.
Susi, who gets emotionally high-strung, leaves the restaurant in a jiffy too.
Roller reefing also allows a more gradual reefing than conventional or jiffy reefing.
I found an old airbrush in my dad's shop and discovered a jiffy way to outbulge them all.
