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sig

/sɪɡ/

sig noun: a signature, especially one on emails or newsgroup postings. Also the abbreviation of sigma in phrases like.

Noun (1)

sig (plural sigs)

  1. (Internet, informal) A signature, especially one on emails or newsgroup postings.
    • Your sig should ideally be four or five lines long, six or seven at the maximum. Since it will be repeated on hundreds of messages, a long signature wastes bandwidth and is therefore rude.1995, Vince Emery, How to grow your business on the Internet
    • Posting good content is the best way to get people clicking your sig link.2004, Brad Hill, Building Your Business with Google For Dummies, page 48

Verb

sig (third-person singular simple present sigs, present participle sigging, simple past and past participle sigged)

  1. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To good-naturedly make fun of someone; to signify.
    • And it is a matter of pride. No Black person wants to be "sigged" about or capped all over.1969 September, Carolyn M[arie] Rodgers, “Black Poetry—Where It's At”, in Negro Digest, volume XVIII, number 11, Chicago, I.L.: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 16
    • Clearly, signifying ain't lost a beat on the bumpy ride from Africa to America. In fact, it seem like brothas been sigging since they stepped off the boat.2005, Kermit Ernest Campbell, Gettin' Our Groove On: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation, Detroit, M.I.: Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 29
    Synonyms:
    banter, jone

Noun (2)

sig (plural sigs)

  1. (university slang) Sigma (in the names of Greek-letter organizations).
    • Sig Chi; Kappa Sig; Sig Nu
    • Outright banning fraternities, however, is a tough move for a university president to make. Greek alums tend to be big donors. [Phil] Hanlon has shied away from making his reform all Greek life, no doubt to avoid the ire of deep-pocketed former Sig Chis.2014 April 17, Allie Jones, “After Years of Bad Press, the Great Fraternity Crackdown Is Here”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Noun (3)

sig (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dated, dialectal) Urine.

Noun (4) capitalized: SIG

SIG (plural SIGs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of special interest group.

Proper noun capitalized: Sig

Sig

  1. A male given name from German Siegfried

Also used as

sig is also the abbreviation of sigma in phrases like.

sig meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

sig in Hindi

सिग

sig in Tamil

சிக், சிக் செய்ய

sig in Marathi

सिग्, सिग

sig in Urdu

سگ, سیگ
More languagesFewer languages
sig in Bengali
সিগ, সিগ করতে
sig in Telugu
సిగ్
sig in Malayalam
സിഗ്, സിഗ് ചെയ്യാൻ, സിഗ് ചെയ്യാനായി
sig in Kannada
ಸಿಗ್
sig in Punjabi
ਸਿੱਗ, ਸਿਗ
sig in Gujarati
સિગ, સિગ્, સીગ કરવા માટે
sig in Odia
ସିଗ୍, ଏସ୍. ଆଇ. ଜି, ସିଗ୍ କରିବା ପାଇଁ
sig in Nepali
सिग, सिग्, सिग गर्न

Examples of sig in a sentence

  • Those siggin' are also master wordsmiths.2010, Ronald L. Jackson II, editor, Encyclopedia of Identity, Thousand Oaks, C.A.: SAGE Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 730, column 1:
  • Let them be a warning to young Kappa Sigs everywhere.2014 May 29, Prachi Gupta, “Your fraternity email chain will come back to haunt you”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 13 Dec...
  • My time at Sig Nu was quite brief, unfortunately, so I'll do my best with the data I gathered.2022 October 6, Eliza Josephson, “POV: You're dancing at a Yale Frat, or not”, in Yale Daily News, archived from the original on 13 Oct...

Synonyms of sig

Forms of sig

Noun
pluralsigs
alternative formzigg
pluralSIGs
Verb
third-person singular presentsigs
present participlesigging
past participlesigged
pastsigged

Plural of sig: sigs

Origin of sig

Clipping of signature.

Clipping of signify (“to boast, brag, insult”).

Clipping of sigma.

Words formed from sig

Phrases with sig

Words that rhyme with sig

25 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about sig

What does sig mean?
Sig means a signature, especially one on emails or newsgroup postings.
What is sig in Hindi?
Sig in Hindi is सिग. See Sig meaning in Hindi.
How do you use sig in a sentence?
Those siggin' are also master wordsmiths.
What part of speech is sig?
Sig can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sig?
Sig is pronounced /sɪɡ/.
What is the plural of sig?
The plural of sig is sigs.

Words near sig in the dictionary

  1. sifu
  2. Sifuentez
  3. Sifuentezes
  4. sifus
  5. sifuvirtide
  6. sig
  7. sig fig
  8. sig figs
  9. sig tune
  10. sig tunes
  11. sig. fig.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sig (page history and authors); SIG (page history and authors); Sig (page history and authors); sig (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sig (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sig (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sig (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sig (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sig (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sig (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sig (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sig (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sig (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sig (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sig (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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