ALL meanings of gig
gig
G g - abbreviation Technical meaning of GIG gigabyte 3
- noun gig a gigabyte. 1
- verb without object gig to work as a musician, especially in a single engagement: He gigged with some of the biggest names in the business. 1
- verb with object gig to give a gig to or punish with a gig. 1
- noun gig music 1
- noun gig job 1
- noun gig carriage 1
- noun gig boat 1
- noun gig hook 1
- intransitive verb gig ride in a gig 1
- intransitive verb gig perform music 1
- transitive verb gig catch with a gig 1
- noun gig A light two-wheeled carriage pulled by one horse. 1
- noun Definition of gig in Technology (unit, data) (GB or colloquially "gig") A unit of data equal to one billion bytes but see binary prefix for other definitions. A gigabyte is 1000^3 bytes or 1000 megabytes. A human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons) contains about 1.5 gigabytes of data. 1000 gigabytes are one terabyte. See prefix. 1
- noun gig (Informal) (music) A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role, especially for a musician or performer. 0
- noun gig (Informal) (by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable. 0
- noun gig (now historical) A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage. 0
- noun gig (archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals. 0
- noun gig (Southern England) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. 0
- noun gig (US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes. 0
- noun gig (Colloquial) (computing) A gigabyte. 0
- noun gig A playful or wanton girl; a giglot. 0
- verb gig To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear. 0
- verb gig To engage in musical performances. 0
- verb gig To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending. 0
- verb gig (US, military) To impose a demerit for an infraction of a dress or deportment code. 0
- verb gig To engender. 0
- countable noun gig A gig is a live performance by someone such as a musician or a comedian. 0
- verb gig When musicians or other performers gig, they perform live in public. 0
- noun gig a light two-wheeled one-horse carriage without a hood 0
- noun gig a light tender for a vessel, often for the personal use of the captain 0
- noun gig a long light rowing boat, used esp for racing 0
- noun gig a machine for raising the nap of a fabric 0
- verb gig to travel in a gig 0
- verb gig to raise the nap of (fabric) 0
- noun gig a cluster of barbless hooks drawn through a shoal of fish to try to impale them 0
- verb gig to catch (fish) with a gig 0
- noun gig a job, esp a single booking for a musician, comedian, etc, to perform at a concert or club 0
- noun gig the performance itself 0
- verb gig to perform at a gig or gigs 0
- noun gig a light, two-wheeled, open carriage drawn by one horse 0
- noun gig a long, light ship's boat, esp. one reserved for the commanding officer 0
- noun gig a machine for raising nap on cloth 0
- noun gig a fish spear 0
- noun gig a fish line with hooks designed to catch fish by jabbing into their bodies 0
- verb transitive gig to spear or jab with or as with a gig 0
- noun gig an official record or report of a minor delinquency, as in a military school; demerit 0
- noun gig punishment for such a delinquency 0
- verb transitive gig to give a gig to 0
- noun gig a job performing music, esp. jazz or rock 0