Gig
A fiddle.
To engender.
A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.
To fish with a gig.
A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.
A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.
A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.
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Gig Quotations
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia Woolf
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
Bill Wyman
If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.
Tom Hanks
When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.
Adam Sandler
I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.
Bruce Willis
No seriously... when there's families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there's always someone who's got something going, like the tour manager.
Phil Collins
I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.
Henry Rollins
When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.
David Spade
With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.
Ron Wood
I can do a gig without an instrument.
Gavin DeGraw
Gig Translations
gig in Spanish is calesa
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