Definitions for gig

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IPA: /gɪg/

Gig is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 7 anagrams from letters in gig (ggi).

Definitions for gig

noun

1. a light, two-wheeled one-horse carriage.
2. Nautical. a light boat rowed with four, six, or eight long oars. a boat reserved for the use of the captain of a ship.
3. something that whirls.
4. Also called gig mill. a roller containing teasels, used for raising nap on a fabric.
5. Obsolete. whirligig (def 5).
6. a device, commonly four hooks secured back to back, for dragging through a school of fish to hook them through the body.
7. a spearlike device with a long, thick handle, used for spearing fish and frogs.
8. an official report of a minor infraction of regulations, as in school or the army; a demerit.
9. a punishment for a minor infraction of rules.
10. a single professional engagement, usually of short duration, as of jazz or rock musicians.
11. any job, especially one of short or uncertain duration:
12. a gigabyte.

verb (used with object)

1. to catch or spear (a fish or frog) with a gig.
2. to give a gig to or punish with a gig.

verb (used without object)

1. to ride in a gig.
2. to raise the nap on (a fabric).
3. to catch fish or frogs with a gig.
4. to work as a musician, especially in a single engagement:

Origin of gig

1200-50; Middle English gigge, gig flighty girl; akin to Danish gig top; compare Norwegian giga to shake about

Examples for gig

Ironically, his quick recovery after such a room-cooling moment could still land him the gig.

By only her second gig ever, she was opening for popular R&B recluse The Weeknd.

Doctor Dalichamp had clambered into his gig and was calling to Maurice.

The gig had just reached the rising ground on which the church was built.

She occasionally has to dress up as a mermaid for her gig at a fancy Miami hotel.

Monster Jam executives “have test driven quite a few women that have decided to pass” on the gig, Johnson said.

No man in a gig could see, or feel, or think, like merry users of their legs.

The doctor gaily got into his gig and exclaimed: 'All right, my dear, I will attend to your cow.

She climbed in a helpless way into the gig, and sat waiting for her husband.

Inspiring others to follow in their footsteps is one of the best parts of the gig, the drivers said.