Gig

Noun

 * 1)  A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role for a musician or performer.
 * I caught one of the Rolling Stones' first gigs in Richmond.
 * Hey, when are we gonna get that hotel gig again?
 * Our guitar player had another gig so we had to get a sub.
 * 1)  Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable.
 * I had this gig as a file clerk but it wasn't my style so I left.
 * Hey, that guy's got a great gig over at the bike shop. He hardly works all day!
 * 1)  A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
 * 2) * 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 77:
 * the room grew stifling warm and vapor clung to the windowpanes, blurring the throng of people still milling outside the courthouse, a row of tethered gigs and buggies, distant pine trees in a scrawny, ragged grove.
 * 1)  A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.
 * 2)  A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
 * 3)  A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes.  {as in "I received gigs for buttons un-buttoned"}

Verb

 * 1) To catch with a gig.
 * 2) To engage in musical performances.
 * The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time
 * 1) To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
 * His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.
 * 1) To impose a demerit for an infraction of a U.S. Military dress or deportment code" as in: "His Sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk."

Noun

 * 1)  A gigabyte.
 * This picture is almost a gig; don't you wanna resize it?
 * How much music does it hold? A hundred and twenty gigs.

Thesaurus
angle, appointment, bait the hook, berth, billet, bob, clam, dap, dib, dibble, drive, employment, engagement, fish, fly-fish, go fishing, grig, guddle, incumbency, jack, jacklight, jig, job, moonlighting, net, office, opening, place, position, post, second job, seine, service, shrimp, situation, spin, station, still-fish, tenure, torch, trawl, troll, vacancy, whale

Etymology 1
Akin to Old Norse gigia:, and German Geige:.

Etymology 2
A shortening of gigabyte:.

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 音樂會, 音乐会
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, schnabbel, concert
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 * Latvian: uzstāšanās
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 * Polish: występ, koncert
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: музыкальное представление
 * Spanish: contrato para tocar
 * Swedish: gig, spelning, framträdande


 * Crimean Tatar: yaylı
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 * Polish: dwukółka
 * Swedish: gigg


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 * Swedish: ljuster, harpun

Verb

 * Finnish:, pyytää atraimella


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