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trig

/tɹɪɡ/

trig adjective: true; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.

Adjective

trig (comparative trigger, superlative triggest)

  1. (dialectal) True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.
  2. (dialectal) Safe; secure.
  3. (dialectal) Tight; firm; steady; sound; in good condition or health.
    • Aye, the Chicopee, a fine-un, she were. Clean-built and trig-lookin’! None more fleet in ‘64 than she...2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe)
  4. (dialectal) Neat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart.
    • we possess of pig's skin and stirrups to keep them square and trig1857, J. Rarey, “The Taming of Horses”, in British Quarterly Review
    • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,[…].1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
  5. (dialectal) Active; clever.

Noun (1)

trig (plural trigs)

  1. (dialectal) A dandy; coxcomb.

Noun (2)

trig (countable and uncountable, plural trigs)

  1. (dialectal, informal, uncountable) Trigonometry.
  2. (countable, dialectal, informal) A trig point.

Noun (3)

trig (plural trigs)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
    • You might as well smite that saw with your fist ; you might as well put a trig under the dam and stop it, as to practise on him1850, Sylvester Judd, Richard Edney and the Governor's Family
  2. (dialectal) The mark for players at skittles, etc.

Verb (1)

trig (third-person singular simple present trigs, present participle trigging, simple past and past participle trigged)

  1. (dialectal, transitive) To stop (a wheel, barrel, etc.) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.

Verb (2)

trig (third-person singular simple present trigs, present participle trigging, simple past and past participle trigged)

  1. (dialectal) To fill; to stuff; to cram.
    • By how much more a mans skin is full treg'd with flesh, blood and natural Spirits.1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC

Noun (4)

trig (plural trigs)

  1. (dialectal, informal) Triglyceride.

Noun (5)

trig (plural trigs)

  1. (dialectal) A cricket in the family Trigonidiidae.

trig meaning in Urdu

trig in Urdu

باقائدہ, لائق, بھرنا, رکاوٹ ڈالنا

Forms of trig

Adjective
comparativetrigger
superlativetriggest
Noun
pluraltrigs
Verb
third-person singular presenttrigs
present participletrigging
past participletrigged
pasttrigged

Origin of trig

From Middle English trig, tryg, from Old Norse tryggr (“loyal, faithful, true”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (“loyal, faithful, true”). Cognate with Old English trīewe (“faithful, loyal, true”). More at true.

Clipping of trigonometry.

See trigger.

Words formed from trig

Phrases with trig

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Questions about trig

What does trig mean?
Trig means true; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.
What is trig in Urdu?
Trig in Urdu is باقائدہ, لائق, بھرنا. See Trig meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is trig?
Trig can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce trig?
Trig is pronounced /tɹɪɡ/ (UK).

Words near trig in the dictionary

  1. trifurcated
  2. trifurcates
  3. trifurcating
  4. trifurcation
  5. trifurcations
  6. trig
  7. trig identity
  8. trig pillar
  9. trig pillars
  10. trig point
  11. trig points

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: trig (page history and authors); trig (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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