From the Cambridge English Corpus. If you are not convinced, think of the development of jazz performers from their first solo to the most memorable gig in their career. They'd go to a gig with a library of prefabricated and tested code.
How much money is generated at pub gigs by the music as opposed to the sale of alcohol or the attractiveness of bar staff? And after the gig , well, you know how it is on the road. And let us imagine that she is not asked to join them in a paid ad hoc gig the following week.
That's always the reason used to marginalise us from gigs, that our music is so heavy that surely it will incite a riot. I decided in most cases not to take loudspeakers to the gig. Letters before venue, audience, etc. The thing is, in a gig , whatever sort of gig it is, the audience has chosen to be there. It is one of the things you do, along with recording, gigs, festivals, playing in pubs, whatever.
And that was probably the best gig of my career. This was not a computer gig , but my voice sure sounded like a synthesizer! The notion of the pick-up gig will take on a new form.
See all examples of gig. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Translations of gig in Chinese Traditional. See more. Middle English -gyge in whyrlegyge whirligig , of unknown origin. See more words from the same year. Accessed 12 Nov. Nglish: Translation of gig for Spanish Speakers. Britannica English: Translation of gig for Arabic Speakers.
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Definition of gig Entry 2 of 9. You can run but you can't hide. My experience Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig.
Give that old dark night of the soul a hug Howl the eternal yes. No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig , and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.
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Retrieve it. If by any chance you spot an inappropriate image within your search results please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. Term » Definition. Word in Definition. Princeton's WordNet 4. GCIDE 1. Webster Dictionary 0. See Fishgig Etymology: [Prob. Freebase 0. Chambers 20th Century Dictionary 0. The New Hacker's Dictionary 0. Dictionary of Nautical Terms 0. How much music does it hold? A hundred and twenty gigs. A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
To engender. A pronged spear for fishing or catching frogs. Hey, when are we gonna get that hotel gig again? Our guitar player had another gig so we had to get a sub. To engage in musical performances. The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time. Origin of gig. Perhaps from obsolete gig spinning top from Middle English gyg- possibly of Scandinavian origin.
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