Definizione monolingua

gig

gig (third-person singular simple present gigs, present participle gigging, simple past and past participle gigged)

1. To catch with a gig.
2. To engage in musical performances.

   The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time

3. To make fun of; to make a joke at someones expense, often condescending.

   His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.

4. 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.""

gig (plural gigs)

1. (informal, music) 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.

2. (informal, by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable.

   I had this gig as a file clerk but it wasnt my style so I left.

   Hey, that guys got a great gig over at the bike shop. He hardly works all day!

3. (now historical) A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
   • 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.

4. (archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.
5. (South England) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
6. (U.S. Military) A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes. {as in ""I received gigs for buttons un-buttoned""}

gig

1. (cardinal) alternative form of miliardo

Definizione dizionario gig

	calesse
	archaic: two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage

	arpione
	archaic: forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals

	esibizione
	performing engagement by a musical group

barca

canotto

concerto

fiocina

gig

lancia

spettacolo

Altri significati:

(U.S. Military) A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes. {as in "I received gigs for buttons un-buttoned"}

(informal, by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable.

To engage in musical performances.

(archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.

To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.

(colloquial, computing) A gigabyte.

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."

(South England) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

(now historical) A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.

To catch with a gig.

(informal, music) A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role for a musician or performer.