gig
verb/ɡɪɡ/
/ɡɪɡ/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they gig | /ɡɪɡ/ /ɡɪɡ/ |
| he / she / it gigs | /ɡɪɡz/ /ɡɪɡz/ |
| past simple gigged | /ɡɪɡd/ /ɡɪɡd/ |
| past participle gigged | /ɡɪɡd/ /ɡɪɡd/ |
| -ing form gigging | /ˈɡɪɡɪŋ/ /ˈɡɪɡɪŋ/ |
- to give musical performances in front of audiences, especially of modern music like rock, pop or jazz
- We were gigging two or three nights a week.
- + adv./prep. Zoe started off singing as part of a reggae band, gigging around the country.
Word Originsense 4 late 18th cent.: apparently a transferred sense of obsolete gig ‘a flighty girl’, which was also applied to various objects or devices that whirled.senses 1 to 2 1920s: of unknown origin.
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