gig

sostantivo

1. 1

   informaleOriginally (music), a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.

   I caught one of the Rolling Stones’ first gigs in Richmond.

   Hey, when are we gonna get that hotel gig again?

2. 2

   informaleAny job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.

   I had this gig as a file clerk but it wasn’t my style so I left.

   That guy’s got a great gig over at the bike shop. He hardly works all day.

   Whether you want to have some occasional translation gigs or turn freelance translating into your fulltime occupation, you'll need to know some essential things […]

3. 3

   informaleA demerit received for some infraction of a military deportment or dress code.

   I received gigs for having buttons of my uniform undone.

verbo

1. 1

   informaleTo play (a musical instrument) at a gig.

2. 2

   informaleTo impose a demerit (on someone) for an infraction of a military deportment or dress code.

   His sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk.

3. 3

   informaleTo engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.

   The Rolling Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time.

4. 4

   informaleTo work at any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.

sostantivo

1. 1

   informaleAny unit of measurement having the SI prefix giga-.

2. 2

   Variante di gigabyteinformaleClipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).

   This picture is almost a gig; don’t you want to resize it?

   My new computer has over 500 gigs of hard drive space.

   The restore would get through between 13 and 20 gigs of data, and then the tape would fail.

sostantivo

1. 1

   informaleA top which is made to spin by tying a piece of string around it and then throwing it so that the string unwinds rapidly; a whipping-top.

   Peda[nt]. Thou diſputes like an Infant: goe vvhip thy Gigg. / Pag[e]. Lende me your Horne to make one, and I vvill vvhip about your Infamie vnũ cita a gigge of a Cuckolds horne.

   Play-things vvhich are above their [children's] Skill to make; as Tops, Gigs, Battledors, and the like, vvhich are to be uſed vvith labour, ſhould indeed be procur'd them: Theſe 'tis convenient they ſhould have, not for Variety, but Exerciſe.

   From infancy through childhood's giddy maze, / Frovvard at ſchool, and fretful in his plays, / The puny tyrant burns to ſubjugate / The free republic of the vvhip-gig ſtate.

2. 2

   arcaicoA person with an odd appearance; also, a foolish person.

3. 3

   arcaicoSenses relating to enjoyment. Fun; frolics.

   Such was his toil, when one night coming home, / Such swell uncivil, who'd been out to roam / In search of lark, or some delicious gig / The mind delights in, when 'tis in prime twig,—

4. 4

   informaleSenses relating to enjoyment. A fanciful impulse; a whim; also, a joke.

   I muſt goe ſee him preſently, / For this is ſuch a gig: for certaine Gentlemen / The Fiend rides on a Fiddleſticke.

5. 5

   informaleSenses relating to vehicles. A small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.

   The captain's gig still lies before ye whole and sound, / It shall carry all o' we.

6. 6

   informaleSenses relating to vehicles. A similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; specifically, a six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

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   storicoSenses relating to vehicles. A two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.

   While Sir William was with them, Mr. Collins devoted his mornings to driving him out in his gig, and shewing him the country; […]

   Here a coach thundered over the pavement, and there an unwieldy omnibus, with spruce gigs rattling past, and horsemen prancing through all the bustle.

   [W]hen he was gone (in the carriage, mind you, not in the gig driven by the groom), I am sure Mrs. Newcome would have written a letter that night to Her Grace the Duchess Dowager, his mamma, full of praise of the dear child, his graciousness, his beauty, and his wit, and declaring that she must love him henceforth and for ever after as a son of her own.

   [T]he 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.

verbo

1. 1

   informaleTo make a joke, often condescendingly, at the expense of (someone); to make fun of.

   His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.

2. 2

   informaleSometimes followed by it: to ride in a gig (“a two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse”).

sostantivo

1. 1

   informaleA frivolous, playful, or wanton young woman; a giglet or giglot.

sostantivo

1. 1

   informaleSynonym of fishgig or fizgig (“a spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals”).

   On toward dusk some little gypsy boys whittled gigs from river-birch limbs and went to a backwater and gigged frogs until they had a basketful.

verbo

1. 1

   informaleTo spear (fish, etc.) with a gig or fizgig.

2. 2

   informaleTo catch or fish with a gig or fizgig.

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