gigging

Etymology

From gig + -ing.

noun

1. gerund of gig (in various senses).
   1. (film, music, television, theater) The act of engaging in a musical performance, acting in a theatre production, etc.
   2. The practice of working at a job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
   3. The act of catching or fishing with a gig">gig or fizgig.
      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, page 323

verb

1. present participle and gerund of gig