igg

present singular third person iggs · participle present igging · participle past igged · past igged · alternative ig · alternative iggy

1. colloquialtransitiveTo ignore deliberately.

   I was tryin' to give it back to him, but he doesn't speak to me anymore. I keep trying.. but he keeps iggin' me.

   1995, Clockers, 01:45:00

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   1953, Langston Hughes, ‘Simple Takes a Wife’, in 2002, Donna Sullivan Harper (editor), The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Early Simple Stories, Volume 7, page 202, But not knowing my own mind, I made it hard for Mabel, keeping late hours, igging her, and playing Cherie. Then, one day while Mabel was at work, I packed my clothes and left.

   I mean you can know that the little yalla boys and girls or the med and dent students are “igging” you and be igged and conscious (to the degree you are conscious) of it, […]

   1984, Imamu Amiri Baraka, The autobiography of LeRoi Jones, page 95

   Ig is obsolete. Ig always conveyed an action and an attitude. At one time, to be igged was the worst attitude someone could convey to you without directly speaking to you. It was an insult, a slight. But being igged has lost its weight.

   2003, Marlene Kim Connor, What Is Cool?: Understanding Black Manhood in America, page 14

1. uncountablebiologyImmunoglobulin G.

1. UgandaabbreviationAbbreviation of Inspectorate of Government.

   Uganda grapples with widespread government corruption with an estimated Sh. 10 trillion ($2.7 billion) in public funding diverted each year, according to its anti-graft body, the Inspectorate of Government (IGG).

   2024 July 22, Nimi Princewill, “Uganda’s President Museveni warns citizens they are ‘playing with fire’ over planned protests”, in CNN