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

[victor steinbok]

I can't track back all the exchanges because threading on Gmail absolutely
sucks. So I might be missing some context here for the question.

One of these days I'll start paying closer attention to all ADS-L mail
again...

VS

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 22:20 victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 =
>> gig in the music/free-lance sense.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> John Baker
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>> Jesse =
>> Sheidlower
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>> Subject: Re: New term for me "gig economy"
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>> 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
>> th=
>> e OED.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >
>> > 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."
>> >
>> >
>> > 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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