gig

1. (transitive)informaltransitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "His sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk."USinformaltransitive

3. (intransitive)Examples: "The Rolling Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time."informalintransitive

4. (intransitive)broadlyinformalintransitive

1. (informal, computing) Clipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).Examples: "This picture is almost a gig; don’t you want to resize it?"; "My new computer has over 500 gigs of hard drive space."; "The restore would get through between 13 and 20 gigs of data, and then the tape would fail."abbreviationalt-ofclippinginformal

2. (slang, chiefly sciences) Any unit of measurement having the SI prefix giga-.informalslang

1. (obsolete) A top which is made to spin by tying a piece of string around it and then throwing it so that the string unwinds rapidly; a whipping-top.Examples: "Peda[nt]. Thou diſputes like an Infant: goe vvhip thy Gigg. / Pag[e]. Lende me your Horne to make one, and I vvill vvhip about your Infamie vnũ cita a gigge of a Cuckolds horne."; "Play-things vvhich are above their [children's] Skill to make; as Tops, Gigs, Battledors, and the like, vvhich are to be uſed vvith labour, ſhould indeed be procur'd them: Theſe 'tis convenient they ſhould have, not for Variety, but Exerciſe."; "From infancy through childhood's giddy maze, / Frovvard at ſchool, and fretful in his plays, / The puny tyrant burns to ſubjugate / The free republic of the vvhip-gig ſtate."informalobsolete

2. (chiefly British, school slang (Eton College), archaic or dialectal) A person with an odd appearance; also, a foolish person.Britisharchaicdialectalinformal

3. Senses relating to enjoyment.Examples: "Such was his toil, when one night coming home, / Such swell uncivil, who'd been out to roam / In search of lark, or some delicious gig / The mind delights in, when 'tis in prime twig,—"Britisharchaicdialectalinformalslang

4. Senses relating to enjoyment.Examples: "I muſt goe ſee him preſently, / For this is ſuch a gig: for certaine Gentlemen / The Fiend rides on a Fiddleſticke."informalobsolete

5. Senses relating to vehicles.Examples: "She [a frigate] also carried a Commodore's Barge, a Captain's Gig, and a "dingy," a small yawl, with a crew of apprentice boys. […] Above all, the officers see to it that the Commodore's Barge and the Captain's Gig are manned by gentlemanly youths, who do credit to their country, and form agreeable objects for the eyes of the Commodore or Captain to repose upon as he tranquilly sits in the stern, when pulled ashore by his barge-men or gig-men, as the case may be."; "The captain's gig still lies before ye whole and sound, / It shall carry all o' we."informal

6. Senses relating to vehicles.Southern-Englandbroadlyinformal

1. (transitive) To make a joke, often condescendingly, at the expense of (someone); to make fun of.Examples: "His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school."informaltransitive

2. (intransitive) Sometimes followed by it: to ride in a gig (“a two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse”).informalintransitive

1. (obsolete) A frivolous, playful, or wanton young woman; a giglet or giglot.Synonyms: fizgiginformalobsolete