plural gigs
: a job usually for a specified time
especially
: an entertainer's engagement see also gig economy, gig worker
gigged; gigging
: to work as a musician
gigged with various bands—
Downbeat
Downbeat1
: a pronged spear for catching fish
2
: an arrangement of hooks to be drawn through a school of fish in order to hook their bodies
gigged; gigging
: to fish with a gig
: a military demerit
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Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2025
Each gig is around 45 minutes long and some overlap in different locations so choices have to be made.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2025
The wouldn’t change until 1997 when Black Sabbath took part in the inaugural Ozzfest tour, and then proceeded to gig with Osbourne across the globe for the next couple of years.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Cynthia Erivo will be seeing green all over again for her next big gig.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2025
Each gig is around 45 minutes long and some overlap in different locations so choices have to be made.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
In the summer of ’69, hundreds of thousands of people converged on a muddy New York farm to soak in music by artists that Pink Floyd had gigged with: Jimi Hendrix, the Who, and Ten Years After, among them.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2025
The wouldn’t change until 1997 when Black Sabbath took part in the inaugural Ozzfest tour, and then proceeded to gig with Osbourne across the globe for the next couple of years.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2025
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“Gig.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gig. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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