gig

[ UK /ɡˈɪɡ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɪɡ/ ]
NOUN
  1. long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
  2. an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
  3. a booking for musicians
    they played a gig in New Jersey
  4. a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting
  5. tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain
  6. small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood
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How To Use gig In A Sentence

  • My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
  • At this point, I can't think of a job I'd like more than a writing gig.
  • This is a gigantic behavior difference cued by one tiny and costless change in procedure.
  • Two-gig Pents, virtual keys, mondo bandwidth... seriously rad, my man. T2: INFILTRATOR
  • By June of this year the whirligig of politics had kicked the Conservatives out and put the Liberal Democrats in.
  • And a gigantic cock salmon of around 44 lb was also landed in November during hatchery broodstock collection.
  • It was indeed, the dirty brown hair was neatly combed and the coat was new and clean, he was smiling fit to burst as he entertained giggling ladies and laughing lords.
  • This year the colourful event shirt features a clown and will be on sale in all sizes from the tiniest to the gigantesque.
  • Advanced economies the world over are building gigabit-speed fibreoptic networks. Times, Sunday Times
  • The analogical structure and poetical impulse that runs through all of the paired images are even found in the artist's single images such as his Giglio.
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