Gig
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English
Noun
Gig (plural Gigs)- (informal, music) A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role for a musician or performer.
- I caught one of the Rolling Stones' first gigs in Richmond.
- Hey, when are we gonna get that hotel gig again?
- Our guitar player had another gig so we had to get a sub.
- (informal, by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable.
- I had this gig as a file clerk but it wasn't my style so I left.
- Hey, that guy's got a great gig over at the bike shop. He hardly works all day!
- (now historical) A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
- 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 77:
- the room grew stifling warm and vapor clung to the windowpanes, blurring the throng of people still milling outside the courthouse, a row of tethered gigs and buggies, distant pine trees in a scrawny, ragged grove.
- 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 77:
- (archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.
- (South England) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
- (U.S. Military) A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes. {as in "I received gigs for buttons un-buttoned"}
Verb
Gig (third-person singular simple present gigs, present participle gigging, simple past and past participle gigged)
- To catch with a gig.
- To engage in musical performances.
- The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time
- To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
- His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.
- To impose a demerit for an infraction of a U.S. Military dress or deportment code" as in: "His Sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk."
Noun
Gig (plural Gigs)- (colloquial, computing) A gigabyte.
- This picture is almost a gig; don't you wanna resize it?
- How much music does it hold? A hundred and twenty gigs.
Thesaurus
angle, appointment, bait the hook, berth, billet, bob, clam, dap, dib, dibble, drive, employment, engagement, fish, fly-fish, go fishing, grig, guddle, incumbency, jack, jacklight, jig, job, moonlighting, net, office, opening, place, position, post, second job, seine, service, shrimp, situation, spin, station, still-fish, tenure, torch, trawl, troll, vacancy, whale
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Akin to Old Norse gigia (“fiddle”), and German Geige (“violin”).
Etymology 2
A shortening of gigabyte.
Translations
Noun
performing engagement by a musical group
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archaic: two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage
archaic: forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals
Verb
to catch with a gig
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to engage in musical performances
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