plural gigs
: a job usually for a specified time
especially
: an entertainer's engagement see also gig economy, gig worker
gigged; gigging
: to work as a musician
gigged with various bands—
Downbeat
Downbeat1
: a pronged spear for catching fish
2
: an arrangement of hooks to be drawn through a school of fish in order to hook their bodies
gigged; gigging
: to fish with a gig
: a military demerit
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Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
Each subsequent record was more successful than the last, while the band ceaselessly crisscrossed the country for gigs.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
But a host of subtly brilliant utility features that are easy to organize within the DAW’s expansive architecture puts it over the top as far as utilities for gigging musicians go.
—Parker Hall, WIRED, 21 July 2024
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Noun
Each woman at Madison Square Garden took turns, almost treating the song like a lullaby, a different gig for a different sky.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
Each subsequent record was more successful than the last, while the band ceaselessly crisscrossed the country for gigs.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
There was a mystique to the gigging musician wandering the big city in search of work, because this work was creative, improvisational, at times transcendent.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
But a host of subtly brilliant utility features that are easy to organize within the DAW’s expansive architecture puts it over the top as far as utilities for gigging musicians go.
—Parker Hall, WIRED, 21 July 2024
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“Gig.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gig. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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