gigging

gig·ging
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US, UK/ˈɡɪɡɪŋ/

noun

The act of engaging in a musical performance, acting in a theatre production, etc.

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Meanings

noungigging (uncountable)
  1. gerund of gig (in various senses).
    1. uncountablebroadcastingThe act of engaging in a musical performance, acting in a theatre production, etc.
    2. uncountableThe practice of working at a job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
    3. uncountableThe act of catching or fishing with a gig or fizgig.
      1 more example

      A community of chimpanzees living on the edges of the savanna in Senegal has learned to fashion and use spears, which they sharpen with their teeth. These are chimps we've been observing for two hundred years; they never used spears. Now they've begun spiking little bush babies with them. The bush babies hide in hollow trees. The chimps do a sort of frog-gigging number on them and pull them out like fondue.

      2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, “Violence of the Lambs”, in Pulphead: Dispatches from the Other Side of America, London: Vintage Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 323
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of gig

Origin

From gig + -ing.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with gigging

diggingriggingfriggingjiggingpiggingrunning riggingstanding riggingwigging
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APA

gigging. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gigging

MLA

“gigging.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gigging. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gigging,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gigging.

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