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tigs

tigs is the plural of tig.

Meaning of tig

Noun (1)

tig (plural tigs)

  1. (dialectal) A light touch; a tap or pat.
  2. (Ireland, Scotland, England apart from the south) The children's game of tag.
    • One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes: long and white and thin and cold and soft.1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 36

Noun (2)

tig (plural tigs)

  1. (historical) A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.

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Questions about tigs

What is tigs the plural of?
Tigs is the plural of tig.

Words near tigs in the dictionary

  1. tigrishly
  2. tigrishness
  3. Tigriña
  4. tigroid
  5. Tigré
  6. tigs
  7. TIGTA
  8. Tigue
  9. Tigues
  10. Tiguma
  11. Tigurini

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