[Ads-l] New term for me "gig economy"

[Bill Mullins]

While researching gig I found another sense that I don't see listed in the OED.

To get "gigged" on an inspection is for the inspector to have found something that does not meet standards.  The write-up from the inspector that results is a "gig".  I suspect that people with a military background (Hi Wilson!) would be familiar with this.


Honolulu  HI _Star-Bulletin_ 29 Jul 1939, feature sec p 3 col 6 (newspapers.com)
"You can get 'gigged' in civvy life if you come up short as well as in the army."


Clinton MO _Henry County Democrat_ 17 May 1951 p 2 col 5

[Headline] "Clinton GIs See Bright Weekends -- Barring Gigs"
[article] "If they aren't gigged on Saturday inspections they'll be able to visit their Henry County homes each weekend while they're at Leonard Wood."

Freeport IL _Journal-Standard_ 28 Jul 1954,  p 13 col 3
"We operated under a demerit or 'gig' system.  Thirty gigs meant expulsion from camp.  You could get gigged for anything."


  *

> Is it the very common term "gig economy" that is being mentioned, or the even more
> common transferred sense of "gig"?  The earliest occurrences of "gig economy" in
> LexisNexis are from 2009; the transferred sense of "gig" has an OED first use of 1964.

> Fred Shapiro


------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org