[ɡɪɡ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a live performance by a musician or group playing popular or jazz music
(e.g: they relied almost entirely on live gigs to earn a livelihood)

- a job, especially one that is temporary or freelance and performed on an informal or on-demand basis
(e.g: her husband picked up food-delivery gigs)


Phrases:

Origin:
1920s: of unknown origin

[ɡɪɡ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- (of a musician or group) perform a gig or gigs
(e.g: two or three nights a week we were gigging)


Phrases:

Origin:
1920s: of unknown origin

[dʒɪɡ], (Noun)

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[ɡɪɡ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a light two-wheeled carriage pulled by one horse

- a light, fast, narrow boat adapted for rowing or sailing


Phrases:

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

[ɡɪɡ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a device similar to a harpoon, used for catching fish


Phrases:

Origin:
early 18th century: shortening of earlier (rarely used) fizgig, probably from Spanish fisga ‘harpoon’

[ɡɪɡ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- fish using a gig


Phrases:

Origin:
early 18th century: shortening of earlier (rarely used) fizgig, probably from Spanish fisga ‘harpoon’