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digs

digs

8.2
A room or small home that someone rents to live in
  • noun
  • /dɪɡz/
  • Informal
translation icon : vivienda
  • THESE ARE MY NEW DIGS RIGHT HERE FOR NOW, FOR THE TIME BEING.
  • vacation digs

You know, there's a great old saying, Strange faces, suitcases and no digs.

Examples

  • And then another guy from Darlington, Neil Madison, he came to live in, in digs with me as well.

  • So that environment, you know, you're alongside the other players in I guess a nice hotel, but players digs to some degree.

  • It's those digs that come up early and often.

  • It's those digs that come up early and often.

  • He's checking the new digs out all right, so a little bit of a tour for you all.

  • I HOPE DUTCH APPRECIATES THIS RIDE 'CAUSE YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED AT YOUR DIGS AND SAVED US A TRIP BACK.

    White Fang (1991)

  • NICE DIGS!

    Bleed (2016)

  • PRETTY SWANKY DIGS.

    Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! (2008)

  • After moving to the city, she found a cozy little place that became her favorite digs.

  • He is always inviting friends over to check out his new digs near the beach.

Synonyms

pad
vsdigs
  • Informal
61 7.4

A casual word for a home often meaning a small apartment

is more about short-term rented rooms than a personal apartment
living accommodations
vsdigs
1 3.3

Places like rooms or buildings where people live

is informal and usually refers to smaller, rented or temporary housing
diggings
vsdigs
  • Archaic
8.4

A simple place where someone lives for a short time

is informal but more general, often rented rather than specifically makeshift
lodgings
vsdigs
3.3

Temporary rooms you rent to stay in for a short time

is informal and used more for casual personal rentals rather than hotels

Antonyms

mansion
327 3.4

A very large, impressive house often with many rooms and gardens

palace
241 1.0

A large, beautiful house where a king or queen lives

How Comfortable

suite
288 3.5
apartment
  • US
∞ 1.0
digs
  • Informal
8.2
room
∞ 1.0
to shelter
76 2.5

Surface Forms

dig singular
digs plural

Etymology

The word digs meaning a place to live is a short form of diggings, a word once used for the small camps where miners lived and worked. A helpful way to remember it is to think of those simple miner homes, so today digs means your room or place to live, often temporary or rented.