gig - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'gig' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Gig

[ n.]

- A fiddle.
- A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.
- A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
- A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
- A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.
- A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.
- A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.

2 . Gig

[ v. t.]

- To engender.
- To fish with a gig.

Meaning of 'gig' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . gig

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- a booking for musicians

Example in sentence:

they played a gig in New Jersey

Nearby Words:

gigantean gigantesque gigantic gigantical giganticide gigantine gigantology gigantomachy gigeria gigerium

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