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==English==
===Etymology===
From {{suffix|en|gig|ing|id2=gerund noun}}.
===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈɡɪɡɪŋ/|a=RP,GA}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɪɡɪŋ|s=2}}
* {{hyphenation|en|gig|ging}}
===Noun===
{{en-noun|-}}
# {{gerund of|en|gig}} (''in various senses'').
## {{lb|en|film|music|television|theater}} The [[act#Noun|act]] of [[engage|engaging]] in a [[musical#Adjective|musical]] [[performance]], [[act#Verb|acting]] in a [[theatre]] [[production]], etc.
## The [[practice#Noun|practice]] of [[work at|working at]] a [[job#Noun|job]], especially one that is [[freelance#Adjective|freelance]] or [[temporary]], or [[do#Verb|done]] on an [[on demand|on-demand]] [[basis]].
## The act of [[catch#Verb|catching]] or [[fish#Verb|fishing]] with a [[gig#Noun 5|gig]] or [[fizgig]].
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:John Jeremiah Sullivan|chapter=Violence of the Lambs|title=[[w:Pulphead|Pulphead: Dispatches from the Other Side of America]]|location=London|publisher=w:Vintage Books|year=2011|year_published=2012|page=323|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=jmYfRxyavAEC&pg=PA323|isbn=978-0-09-957235-0|passage=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.}}
===Verb===
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{{C|en|Fishing}}
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