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nounPlural gigs ɡɪɡɡɪɡ 1historical A light two-wheeled carriage pulled by one horse. Example sentencesExamples - Luckily for him, her carriage was an open gig, and she had no trouble hearing him above the crickets and the wind.
- The four horse drawn gigs will be in Dungarvan on July 9 and travelling from Cappoquin to Fermoy on July 10.
- During the war we had a gig with a cart horse and used to bowl along around the north-west end of town - great transport when petrol was rationed.
- The doctor persisted with the cantankerous little car, but admitted that if he had an urgent medical case to visit he would take a horse drawn gig rather than risk a break down.
- On one occasion the Archdeacon conducted a service on the verandah and the neighbours arrived for this in gigs, on horseback and in cars.
Synonyms wagon, hackney, hansom, landau, trap, caravan, car 2A light, fast, narrow boat adapted for rowing or sailing. Example sentencesExamples - An hour or two later, the ferry tows the gigs home.
- The new gig should be out of the builders by April next year, giving plenty of time to think of a name.
Origin Late 18th century: apparently a transferred sense of obsolete gig 'a flighty girl', which was also applied to various objects or devices that whirled. Rhymes big, brig, dig, fig, grig, jig, lig, pig, prig, rig, snig, sprig, swig, tig, trig, twig, Whig, wig nounPlural gigs ɡɪɡɡɪɡ informal 1A live performance by a musician or group playing popular or jazz music. Example sentencesExamples - She had retreated to the island after a fast and furious year of travel and gigs.
- She is jetting about all over the place, flitting between jazz gigs, gospel recitals, disco dates and dance shows.
- Imagine being a successful Jazz musician playing gigs on the road, performing in the Big Apple's coolest clubs and even under the stage lights of Broadway.
- I'd venture into London, and my dad would take me to a rock gig or a jazz gig.
- This not-to-be-missed gig on November 6 at 8.30 pm is a welcome highlight for all fans of traditional music and live gigs.
- It is worth remembering, though, that this was a debut gig, and mistakes can be fine tuned with time.
- They started the band and became more popular with their live gigs.
- It was last year that the boys played all-out big gigs in front of sell-out crowds.
- So as a big tease he made a debut gig tonight and promptly broke up his band.
- As someone in the audience told me, it was light years away from their previous gigs.
- Tickets are $25 and being a one-off gig they will sell fast.
- With more practice, a few bigger gigs and an active dance floor, there is potential.
- A gig is a gig if it's in front of 60 people or 6,000 people.
- I also did quite a lot of gigs with different set-ups and I always had to re-arrange the music again for these gigs, which takes a lot of time.
- At the end of the gig, when the lights came back on, the people who'd been standing next to us turned to us and said how nice it was to see people really getting into the music.
- With sell-out gigs of their own and festival appearances, this year must have worked out better than they could have hoped for.
- This is a unique gig and tickets will no doubt sell out fast.
- We're so big now that I just kind of get ferried to gigs and told to play.
- For a start, when was the last time you saw a Spanish guitar at a hip-hop gig?
- A music-making course at Wiltshire Music Centre gave youngsters the chance to perform a live gig.
Synonyms performance, turn, routine, number, item, piece, sketch, skit, playlet, dance, song - 1.1 A job, especially one that is temporary or that has an uncertain future.
working on the sea and spotting whales seemed like a great gig Example sentencesExamples - After I get writing gigs, I try to take care of them as soon as I can.
- I just started the biggest freelance gig of my life, hopefully I'll get to say something about it soon as one part should launch next week.
- Why not roll up your sleeves and snap up those lucrative implementation gigs?
- Feature writing is the easiest gig in the business, if you ask me.
- At this point, I can't think of a job I'd like more than a writing gig.
- While she works as an ESL teacher, she is getting closer to making writing her full-time gig.
- Maybe it's time to look into a part-time babysitting gig - as long as tending to the tots doesn't distract you from your studies.
- I'm keeping my correspondent's name confidential, just in case there's a chance of more copyediting gigs in the future.
- She's been doing this gig too long; she's written herself out of topics.
- Mark gave me this gig because he knows I that can write decently.
- Anna originally turned down the writing gig but reconsidered after learning that some people had the wrong impression of her.
- I was living in Toronto and had just secured my first weekly DJ gig, something that required me to spend all kinds of money I didn't have on records every week.
- Aside from the usual babysitting gig, there are other ways to rake in the bucks you need to buy a new computer.
- I had been walking home from a babysitting gig at my friend Rosaline's house when he nearly ran me down.
- Sometimes, this professor gig can be almost like a real job.
- Volunteering helped him secure his first paying gig as an assistant director of business and legal affairs.
- He now does regular gigs for writing groups in Fleetwood.
- I figured if I want to pursue writing as a real, hopefully money-making gig in the future, I'd better get used to doing it on a regular basis.
- The night before I picked it up, I did a television news gig.
- It goes without saying that the book doesn't pay half as well as the information architecture gig did.
- This job is in addition to his semi-regular gig writing record and concert reviews for the local weekly, the Other Paper.
- Prior to this gig, he was a PR director.
- The man claims he will do anything to get a network TV gig.
- From afar being a sperm donor sounds like a pretty good gig.
- I was actually working, doing a bizarre street-performance gig in Memphis.
- In any event, it couldn't have helped me, and I continue to pay the rent with menial office work and a few freelance writing gigs.
- Last year, I was living in Chicago and looking for a third job to supplement my freelance writing and catering gigs.
- He gives you some great gig in which you make a whole heap of money, and you're just on top of the world and on every magazine cover, but your personal life is miserable.
- Anyway, with my current search for freelancing gigs I was thinking about how much a freelancer needs to charge per day to equal certain full-time salaries.
- Loading in gear and loading out gear is probably the worst part of any gig.
- Get her out of the restaurant critic gig, and back to the features before all is lost.
- That might be an even tougher assignment than his international gig.
- I wonder if I can get some gig where I can work from home.
verbgigged, gigs, gigging ɡɪɡɡɪɡ [no object]informal 1Perform a gig or gigs. two or three nights a week we were gigging Example sentencesExamples - She is currently putting a group together and gigging around Dublin with the intention of making it as a singer and dancer in the United States.
- She spent the rest of the autumn in New York and New Orleans gigging and writing for her third album.
- Year 2000, and we've just been joined by an extra guitarist who will be gigging with us soon and we're currently working on our new album.
- Our cousin sang back-up for Smokey so we got to see them every year when they gigged in town.
- We gigged for about two years adding and taking away another couple of guitarists.
- The band began to gig around London and gain a loyal cult following.
- We plan to gig as much as we can and hopefully get an album released, we have enough material.
- Next year we'll be gigging and writing as much as possible.
- In fact, the band carried on recording and gigging until 2000.
- Livewise, we are gigging almost all the time, and we will let you know all dates as they are confirmed, here's what we have so far.
- It was the 60s, and like The Beatles, he gigged in Liverpool and Hamburg.
- ‘We want to gig at stag parties and weddings and water parks,’ he insists.
- The band has gigged constantly ever since.
- For a long time, they have gigged extensively but never had a definite cutting edge to their sound.
- That, my friends, could be the album's only fatal flaw - they've been gigging solidly with these songs, and when the album's released they'll be gigging with them again.
- The band gigged around the city until they were discovered by a local Liverpuddlian label, Honey Records.
- Tonight, as well has playing with a new drummer that they've never gigged with, the singer isn't in the best of health due to having Shingles.
- After a year gigging all over Europe they descended into the studio returning with the finest progressive rock album of this millennium.
- In no time at all we were gigging and the fun began!
- Evidently, from the tight togetherness of the playing here, these were accomplished show bands used to endlessly gigging.
- 1.1with object Use (a piece of musical equipment) at a gig.
12-string guitar, mint condition, never gigged
Origin 1920s: of unknown origin. nounPlural gigs ɡɪɡɡɪɡ A device similar to a harpoon, used for catching fish.
verbgigged, gigs, gigging ɡɪɡɡɪɡ [no object]Origin Early 18th century: shortening of earlier (rarely used) fizgig, probably from Spanish fisga 'harpoon'. nounPlural gigs dʒɪɡ Computing informal over 9 gigs of programs for the PC short for gigabyte Example sentencesExamples - The good news is, you get an extra gig of data download to watch this.
- The user was cut off after downloading 150 gigs this month.
- In an entire month, this web site might use up 60 gigs in bandwidth - although unlikely.
- Of course, if you're down to your last few gigs, you probably should buy a new drive.
- As part of the upgrade, their usage limit will increase from 30 gig to 75 gig a month.
nounɡɪɡɡiɡ 1historical A light two-wheeled carriage pulled by one horse. Example sentencesExamples - The doctor persisted with the cantankerous little car, but admitted that if he had an urgent medical case to visit he would take a horse drawn gig rather than risk a break down.
- During the war we had a gig with a cart horse and used to bowl along around the north-west end of town - great transport when petrol was rationed.
- Luckily for him, her carriage was an open gig, and she had no trouble hearing him above the crickets and the wind.
- The four horse drawn gigs will be in Dungarvan on July 9 and travelling from Cappoquin to Fermoy on July 10.
- On one occasion the Archdeacon conducted a service on the verandah and the neighbours arrived for this in gigs, on horseback and in cars.
Synonyms wagon, hackney, hansom, landau, trap, caravan, car 2A light, fast, narrow boat adapted for rowing or sailing. Example sentencesExamples - An hour or two later, the ferry tows the gigs home.
- The new gig should be out of the builders by April next year, giving plenty of time to think of a name.
Origin Late 18th century: apparently a transferred sense of obsolete gig ‘a flighty girl’, which was also applied to various objects or devices that whirled. nounɡɪɡɡiɡ informal 1A live performance by or engagement for a musician or group playing popular or jazz music. Example sentencesExamples - It is worth remembering, though, that this was a debut gig, and mistakes can be fine tuned with time.
- This is a unique gig and tickets will no doubt sell out fast.
- Tickets are $25 and being a one-off gig they will sell fast.
- She is jetting about all over the place, flitting between jazz gigs, gospel recitals, disco dates and dance shows.
- She had retreated to the island after a fast and furious year of travel and gigs.
- I also did quite a lot of gigs with different set-ups and I always had to re-arrange the music again for these gigs, which takes a lot of time.
- As someone in the audience told me, it was light years away from their previous gigs.
- I'd venture into London, and my dad would take me to a rock gig or a jazz gig.
- This not-to-be-missed gig on November 6 at 8.30 pm is a welcome highlight for all fans of traditional music and live gigs.
- It was last year that the boys played all-out big gigs in front of sell-out crowds.
- At the end of the gig, when the lights came back on, the people who'd been standing next to us turned to us and said how nice it was to see people really getting into the music.
- A music-making course at Wiltshire Music Centre gave youngsters the chance to perform a live gig.
- So as a big tease he made a debut gig tonight and promptly broke up his band.
- Imagine being a successful Jazz musician playing gigs on the road, performing in the Big Apple's coolest clubs and even under the stage lights of Broadway.
- For a start, when was the last time you saw a Spanish guitar at a hip-hop gig?
- With sell-out gigs of their own and festival appearances, this year must have worked out better than they could have hoped for.
- With more practice, a few bigger gigs and an active dance floor, there is potential.
- They started the band and became more popular with their live gigs.
- A gig is a gig if it's in front of 60 people or 6,000 people.
- We're so big now that I just kind of get ferried to gigs and told to play.
Synonyms performance, turn, routine, number, item, piece, sketch, skit, playlet, dance, song - 1.1 A job, especially one that is temporary or that has an uncertain future.
he secured his first gig as an NFL coach Example sentencesExamples - I just started the biggest freelance gig of my life, hopefully I'll get to say something about it soon as one part should launch next week.
- Mark gave me this gig because he knows I that can write decently.
- Last year, I was living in Chicago and looking for a third job to supplement my freelance writing and catering gigs.
- I was living in Toronto and had just secured my first weekly DJ gig, something that required me to spend all kinds of money I didn't have on records every week.
- At this point, I can't think of a job I'd like more than a writing gig.
- Volunteering helped him secure his first paying gig as an assistant director of business and legal affairs.
- I wonder if I can get some gig where I can work from home.
- I was actually working, doing a bizarre street-performance gig in Memphis.
- In any event, it couldn't have helped me, and I continue to pay the rent with menial office work and a few freelance writing gigs.
- That might be an even tougher assignment than his international gig.
- The man claims he will do anything to get a network TV gig.
- Anyway, with my current search for freelancing gigs I was thinking about how much a freelancer needs to charge per day to equal certain full-time salaries.
- Sometimes, this professor gig can be almost like a real job.
- After I get writing gigs, I try to take care of them as soon as I can.
- While she works as an ESL teacher, she is getting closer to making writing her full-time gig.
- Loading in gear and loading out gear is probably the worst part of any gig.
- Feature writing is the easiest gig in the business, if you ask me.
- Get her out of the restaurant critic gig, and back to the features before all is lost.
- Why not roll up your sleeves and snap up those lucrative implementation gigs?
- This job is in addition to his semi-regular gig writing record and concert reviews for the local weekly, the Other Paper.
- She's been doing this gig too long; she's written herself out of topics.
- He gives you some great gig in which you make a whole heap of money, and you're just on top of the world and on every magazine cover, but your personal life is miserable.
- It goes without saying that the book doesn't pay half as well as the information architecture gig did.
- From afar being a sperm donor sounds like a pretty good gig.
- I figured if I want to pursue writing as a real, hopefully money-making gig in the future, I'd better get used to doing it on a regular basis.
- I had been walking home from a babysitting gig at my friend Rosaline's house when he nearly ran me down.
- I'm keeping my correspondent's name confidential, just in case there's a chance of more copyediting gigs in the future.
- Aside from the usual babysitting gig, there are other ways to rake in the bucks you need to buy a new computer.
- Maybe it's time to look into a part-time babysitting gig - as long as tending to the tots doesn't distract you from your studies.
- He now does regular gigs for writing groups in Fleetwood.
- The night before I picked it up, I did a television news gig.
- Anna originally turned down the writing gig but reconsidered after learning that some people had the wrong impression of her.
- Prior to this gig, he was a PR director.
verbɡɪɡɡiɡ [no object]informal 1Perform a gig or gigs. Example sentencesExamples - The band began to gig around London and gain a loyal cult following.
- She spent the rest of the autumn in New York and New Orleans gigging and writing for her third album.
- We plan to gig as much as we can and hopefully get an album released, we have enough material.
- Tonight, as well has playing with a new drummer that they've never gigged with, the singer isn't in the best of health due to having Shingles.
- She is currently putting a group together and gigging around Dublin with the intention of making it as a singer and dancer in the United States.
- In no time at all we were gigging and the fun began!
- The band has gigged constantly ever since.
- Evidently, from the tight togetherness of the playing here, these were accomplished show bands used to endlessly gigging.
- In fact, the band carried on recording and gigging until 2000.
- After a year gigging all over Europe they descended into the studio returning with the finest progressive rock album of this millennium.
- The band gigged around the city until they were discovered by a local Liverpuddlian label, Honey Records.
- Year 2000, and we've just been joined by an extra guitarist who will be gigging with us soon and we're currently working on our new album.
- That, my friends, could be the album's only fatal flaw - they've been gigging solidly with these songs, and when the album's released they'll be gigging with them again.
- ‘We want to gig at stag parties and weddings and water parks,’ he insists.
- Our cousin sang back-up for Smokey so we got to see them every year when they gigged in town.
- It was the 60s, and like The Beatles, he gigged in Liverpool and Hamburg.
- Next year we'll be gigging and writing as much as possible.
- We gigged for about two years adding and taking away another couple of guitarists.
- For a long time, they have gigged extensively but never had a definite cutting edge to their sound.
- Livewise, we are gigging almost all the time, and we will let you know all dates as they are confirmed, here's what we have so far.
- 1.1with object Use (a piece of musical equipment) at a gig.
Origin 1920s: of unknown origin. nounɡɪɡɡiɡ A device similar to a harpoon, used for catching fish.
Origin Early 18th century: shortening of earlier (rarely used) fizgig, probably from Spanish fisga ‘harpoon’. nounɡɪɡɡiɡ Computing informal over 9 gigs of programs for the PC short for gigabyte Example sentencesExamples - The good news is, you get an extra gig of data download to watch this.
- The user was cut off after downloading 150 gigs this month.
- Of course, if you're down to your last few gigs, you probably should buy a new drive.
- In an entire month, this web site might use up 60 gigs in bandwidth - although unlikely.
- As part of the upgrade, their usage limit will increase from 30 gig to 75 gig a month.
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