Definition of Gig

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Definition of Gig

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

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'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

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.
Tom Hanks

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

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.
Roger Daltrey

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!
Cheech Marin

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
Siobhan Fahey

If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.
James Taylor

I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.
John Bonham

Gig Translations

gig in Spanish is calesa

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