Teaching ESL is usually a gig for losers and boozers.
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Gig
//ɡɪɡ//
Synonyms for "gig" (107 found)
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1 entrieshas context
7 entriesis a
5 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
69 entriesShowing 16 of 69 words.
Translations
117 translations across 36 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- حَفْلَة noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
Bulgarian
2 entries- двуколка noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
- халту́ра noun (any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis)
Catalan
2 entries- carrossí noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
- xarret noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 演出 noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- 音樂會 /音乐会 noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- yaylı noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
Czech
3 entries- koncert noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- vystoupení noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- štace noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
Danish
4 entries- gig noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- gig noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
- optræden noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- spillejob noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
Dutch
4 entries- concert noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- gek noun (person with an odd appearance)
- gieg noun (clipping of gigabyte)
- giek noun (small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.)
Estonian
1 entries- keika noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
Finnish
4 entries- giga noun (clipping of gigabyte)
- keikka noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- keikka noun (any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis)
- kiesit noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
French
3 entries- concert noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- gig noun (small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.)
- gig noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
Galician
2 entries- fisgar verb (to spear (fish, etc.) with a gig)
- fisgar verb (to catch or fish with a gig)
Georgian
4 entries- გიგი noun (clipping of gigabyte)
- კაბრიოლეტი noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
- კონცერტი noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- სამუშაო noun (any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis)
German
4 entries- Auftritt noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- Gig noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- Gig noun (small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.)
- Gig noun (similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)
Hungarian
3 entries- fellépés noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- koncert noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- fellép verb (to engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.)
Italian
3 entries- calesse noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
- esibizione noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- giga noun (clipping of gigabyte)
Japanese
3 entries- ギグ noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- 仕事 noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- 出演 noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
Latin
1 entries- cisium noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
Latvian
1 entries- uzstāšanās noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
Macedonian
2 entries- дво́колка noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
- свирка noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
Māori
2 entries- kiki noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
- konohete ōpaki noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- gigg noun (small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.)
- gigg noun (similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قاكلی noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
Persian
1 entries- گیگ noun (clipping of gigabyte)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Bogge noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
Polish
4 entries- dwukółka noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
- fucha noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- gig noun (small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.)
- gig noun (similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)
Portuguese
4 entries- apresentação noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- gig noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
- giga noun (clipping of gigabyte)
- show noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
Russian
4 entries- выступле́ние noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- ги́чка noun (small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.)
- ги́чка noun (similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)
- двуко́лка noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
Sardinian
2 entries- birotzu noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
- carrotzinu noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
Sassarese
1 entries- caressu noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- gáža noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- svȋrka noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- tèzga noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- га́жа noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
Spanish
4 entries- bolo noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- chapuza noun (any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis)
- charrete noun (two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse)
- empleo noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
Swedish
4 entries- framträdande noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- gig noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- gigg noun (small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.)
- gigg noun (similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)
Turkish
2 entries- iş noun (any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis)
- konser noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
Ukrainian
1 entries- гі́чка noun (small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.)
Vietnamese
2 entries- biểu diễn noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
- nhạc sống noun (performing engagement by a musician or musical group; job or role for a performer)
Sample sentences
35 total sentences available.
We have a gig at the club tomorrow night.
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Save for the cold in the hall, the gig was good.
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The band played their last gig at the casino and then they purposely took their own lives by eating a poisonous mushroom stew.
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