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

[victor steinbok]

Quite the opposite - it's related to gig in the freelance sense. Gig
economy = everyone's a temp

VS

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 16:31 Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:

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> I suspect that this is from the OED's gig n.4, a kind of fish-spear, and
> th=
> e related gig v.5, to spear (fish) with a gig.  I assume it's unrelated to
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> gig in the music/free-lance sense.
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> The gig I'm familiar with is not a fish gig, but a frog gig, used for
> hunti=
> ng frogs whose hind legs will then be eaten.  Specifically, I'm familiar
> wi=
> th long poles with small tridents at the end, of an appropriate size to
> spe=
> ar frogs.  However, looking for "frog gig" on the Internet produces a
> varie=
> ty of devices, although they are all for the same purpose.
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> I think it's easy to see how someone who receives a write-up from an
> inspec=
> tor might use this sense of the word figuratively.
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> John Baker
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> HDAS has examples of this from 1930, labelled "Esp. _Army_," for both noun
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> ("an instance of being placed on disciplinary report; demerit") and verb
> ("=
> to place on disciplinary report; administer official punishment to").
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> Jesse Sheidlower
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> 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
> th=
> e OED.
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> > To get "gigged" on an inspection is for the inspector to have found
> somet=
> hing that does not meet standards. The write-up from the inspector that
> res=
> ults is a "gig". I suspect that people with a military background (Hi
> Wilso=
> n!) would be familiar with this.
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> >
> > Honolulu HI _Star-Bulletin_ 29 Jul 1939, feature sec p 3 col 6
> (newspaper=
> s.com)
> > "You can get 'gigged' in civvy life if you come up short as well as in
> th=
> e army."
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> >
> > 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
> Woo=
> d."
> >
> > 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
> th=
> e even more
> > > common transferred sense of "gig"? The earliest occurrences of "gig
> eco=
> nomy" in
> > > LexisNexis are from 2009; the transferred sense of "gig" has an OED
> fir=
> st use of 1964.
> >
> > > Fred Shapiro
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