1. [informal] A booking for musicians
   "they played a gig in New Jersey"
    
2. Small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood
   "They took a romantic ride through the park in a gig"
    
3. [informal] A unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
   "The hard drive had a capacity of 500 gigs";
   - gigabyte, gibibyte, G, GB, GiB
    
4. [informal] A unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
   "The new hard drive had a capacity of 500 gigs";
   - gigabyte, G, GB
    
5. Long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
   "The crew practised in their gig before the big regatta"
    
6. An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
   "The fisherman skilfully wielded the fishgig to gig the large trout";
   - spear, fizgig, fishgig [archaic], lance
    
7. A cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting
   "When the fish weren't biting, the fisherman resorted to using a gig"
    
8. Tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain
   "The captain used his gig to ferry guests to and from the yacht"

1. Perform at a musical engagement, typically a single show
   "The band gigged at local clubs to build their fanbase"

Derived forms: gigs, gigging, gigged

Type of: booking, carriage, computer memory unit, cutter, engagement, equipage, hook, implement, pinnace, rig, ship's boat, small boat, tender

Part of: fishing gear, fishing rig, fishing tackle, rig, tackle, TB, tebibyte, terabyte, TiB

Encyclopedia: Gig