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

[Jesse Sheidlower]

HDAS has examples of this from 1930, labelled "Esp. _Army_," for both noun ("an instance of being placed on disciplinary report; demerit") and verb ("to place on disciplinary report; administer official punishment to").

Jesse Sheidlower

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 06:30:13PM +0000, Bill Mullins wrote:
> While researching gig I found another sense that I don't see listed in the OED.
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> 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.
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> 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."
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> Clinton MO _Henry County Democrat_ 17 May 1951 p 2 col 5
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> [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."
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> 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."
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> > 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.
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> > Fred Shapiro
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