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Webster 1913 Edition


Gig

Gig

(jĭg or gĭg)
,
Noun.
[Cf. OF.
gigue
. See
Jig
,
Noun.
]
A fiddle.
[Obs.]

Gig

(gĭg)
,
Verb.
T.
[Prob. fr. L.
gignere
to beget.]
To engender.
[Obs.]
Dryden.

Gig

,
Noun.
A kind of spear or harpoon. See
Fishgig
.

Gig

,
Verb.
T.
To fish with a gig.

Gig

,
Noun.
[OE.
gigge
. Cf.
Giglot
.]
A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.

Gig

,
Noun.
[Cf. Icel.
gīgja
fiddle, MHG.
gīge
, G.
geige
, Icel.
geiga
to take a wrong direction, rove at random, and E.
jig
.]
1.
A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
Thou disputest like an infant; go, whip thy
gig
.
Shakespeare
2.
A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.
3.
(Naut.)
A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer;
as, the captain’s
gig
.
4.
(Mach.)
A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.
Gig machine
,
Gigging machine
,
Gig mill
, or
Napping machine
.
See
Gig
, 4.
Gig saw
.
See
Jig saw
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Gig

GIG

,
Verb.
T.
[L. gigno.] To engender. [Not in use.]
1.
To fish with a gig or fishgig.

GIG

, n.
1.
Any little thing that is whirled round in play.
2.
A light carriage with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a chair or chaise.
3.
A fiddle.
4.
A dart or harpoon. [See Fishgig.]
5.
A ship's boat.
6.
A wanton girl.

Definition 2024


Gig

Gig

See also: gig

German

Noun

Gig m

  1. gig (performing engagement by a musical group, usually used when referring to events with small audience and contemporary music such as rock or punk)

gig

gig

See also: Gig

English

Noun

gig (plural gigs)

  1. (informal, music) A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role, especially 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?
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  2. (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!
  3. (now historical) A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
    • 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, page 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.
  4. (archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.
  5. (Southern England) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
    • 1979, Stan Rogers, The Flowers of Bermuda:
      The captain's gig still lies before ye whole and sound, / It shall carry all o' we.
  6. (US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes.
    I received gigs for having buttons undone.
Translations

Verb

gig (third-person singular simple present gigs, present participle gigging, simple past and past participle gigged)

  1. To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear.
  2. To engage in musical performances.
    The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time
  3. 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.
  4. (US, military) To impose a demerit for an infraction of a dress or deportment code.
    His sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk.
Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

A shortening of gigabyte.

Noun

gig (plural gig or gigs)

  1. (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.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English gigge, from Old French gigues (a gay, lively girl), from Old Norse gikkr (a pert person), related to Danish gjæk (a fool; jester), Swedish gäck (a fool; jester; wag). More at geck.

Noun

gig (plural gigs)

  1. A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.

Etymology 4

Probably from Latin gignere (to beget).

Verb

gig (third-person singular simple present gigs, present participle gigging, simple past and past participle gigged)

  1. To engender.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

Anagrams


Lojban

Rafsi

gig

  1. rafsi of gigdo.

Welsh

Noun

gig

  1. Soft mutation of cig (meat).

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cig gig nghig chig
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.