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Definition of 'gig'English
Etymology 1
Akin to Old Norse .
Noun
( en-noun)
(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!
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.
(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.
(US|military) A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes.
- I received gigs for having buttons undone.
Verb
To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear.
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.
(US|military) To impose a demerit for an infraction of a dress or deportment code.
- His sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk.
Etymology 2
A shortening of (gigabyte).
Noun
( en-noun)
(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 .
Etymology 3
(etyl) gigge.
Noun
( en-noun)
A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
Etymology 4
Probably from ( etyl) ( lena) .
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