gigs

Noun (1)

gig (plural gigs)

1. (informal) Originally (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.
2. (broadly, informal) Any 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.
3. (US, informal) A demerit received for some infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
   • I received gigs for having buttons of my uniform undone.

Noun (2)

gig (plural gig or gigs)

1. (informal, slang) Any unit of measurement having the SI prefix giga-.

Noun (3)

gig (plural gigs)

1. (informal, obsolete) A 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.c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby...
2. (UK, archaic, dialectal, informal, school slang (Eton College)) A person with an odd appearance; also, a foolish person.

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