to gig

Examples

• All

• Myron, explain to me how we're gonna gig without Hendo and the band.

  The Sapphires (2012)

• I love my sister. I will gig and travel, write and work.

  Fiction book (1998)

• I get up there a lot, 'cause I actually, I gig up there.

  She's Out of My League (2010)

• Well, I'm ready to gig if you guys are.

  Band Aid (2017)

• Over the years, when I gig out, I played to empty rooms and large crowds myself.

  Blog text (24)

• I used to gig with him in Spokane.

  Limbo (1999)

• - I gotta gig.

  Sweeney Killing Sweeney (2018)

• We are excited to gig at the local festival this weekend.

• The band will gig at several venues throughout the summer.

• After weeks of practice, they are finally ready to gig at the new club downtown.

Compounds

S

side gig

• Informal

1 3.7

A small job done in free time to earn extra money

G

gig mill

• Archaic

9.9

A machine in a cloth factory that uses wire cylinders to make fabric soft and fuzzy

G

gig-mill

• Archaic

9.9

A factory machine that uses wire rollers to lift fibers and make fabric soft and fuzzy

R

racing gig

7.7

A light narrow boat for racing that two or more people row

How Big

to star

292 3.2

to headline

13 4.2

to gig

2 3.7

to play

∞ 1.0

to busk

2 8.1

Surface Forms

Etymology