gigging
Syllables: gig·gingUK/ˈɡɪɡɪŋ/
gigging noun: the act of engaging in a musical performance, acting in a theatre production, etc. Also the present participle and gerund of gig.
Noun
gigging (uncountable)
- The act of engaging in a musical performance, acting in a theatre production, etc.
- The practice of working at a job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
- The act of catching or fishing with a gig or fizgig.
- A community of chimpanzees living on the edges of the savanna in Senegal has learned to fashion and use spears, which they sharpen with their teeth. These are chimps we've been observing for two hundred years; they never used spears. Now they've begun spiking little bush babies with them. The bush...2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, “Violence of the Lambs”, in Pulphead: Dispatches from the Other Side of America, London: Vintage Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 323
Also used as
gigging is also the present participle and gerund of gig.
Origin of gigging
From gig + -ing.
Words that rhyme with gigging
Questions about gigging
- What does gigging mean?
- Gigging means the act of engaging in a musical performance, acting in a theatre production, etc.
- What part of speech is gigging?
- Gigging is a noun.
- How do you pronounce gigging?
- Gigging is pronounced /ˈɡɪɡɪŋ/ (UK).
Words near gigging in the dictionary
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