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orig

orig

9.9
The first version of something, not a copy
  • noun
  • /ɔːrɪdʒ/
  • Informal
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  • The Royal Library cannot locate the source of its "MS photocopy 145, no. 4: An identifying note on the photocopy in the University Library, Oslo, reads: "Orig.

Examples

  • Orig. Subs by AEH 2010, add'I corrections by DNE 2016.

    Orlando (1992)

  • (myl) "On the cuff" is a separate idiom, glossed by the OED as "orig."

    Blog text (29)

  • Off the cuff (as if from notes made on the shirt cuff) orig. U.S., extempore, on the spur of the moment, unrehearsed.

    Blog text (29)

  • * Petty, Tom, and the Heartbreakers. "Here Comes My Girl." Greatest Hits (MCA, 1993). (orig. Damn the Torpedoes. MCA, 1979.)

    Academic text (2010)

  • Hubert Damisch quoted in Yve-Alain Bois, Painting as Model (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 1990), 254, emphasis in orig.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Demos, "Circulations," 151-53, and Aesthetics of Exile, 910.52. Ball, entry for June 12, 1916, in Flight, 66, emphasis in orig. 53. Bakhtin, 358. 54.

    Academic text (2014)

  • The orig version of the song was released in 1975.

  • Please send me the orig document before we make any changes.

  • The artist is known for creating the orig artwork for the album cover.

Synonyms

original
vsorig
194 3.5

The first version of something from which copies are made

is an informal short form used instead of the standard term
original version
vsorig
10 4.1

The first form of a book, film, or show before any change

is an informal abbreviation used casually to name that first form

Surface Forms

orig singular
orgs plural

Etymology

Orig can be a noun that shortens original, and it comes from origin meaning 'beginning' or 'first'. That is why an orig is the 'first' or main version of something, 'not a copy'.