Gig or GIG may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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''Gig'' (Circle Jerks album) (1992)
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''Gig'' (Northern Pikes album) (1993)
* ''The Gig'', a 1985 film written and directed by
Frank D. Gilroy
Frank Daniel Gilroy (October 13, 1925 – September 12, 2015) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film producer and director. He received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play ''The Subject Was Roses' ...
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GIG, a character in ''Hot Wheels AcceleRacers''
* "GUYS Is Green" ("G.I.G.!"), in the Japanese television series ''
Ultraman Mebius''
* Gig, a
temporary job
Temporary work or temporary employment (also called gigs) refers to an employment situation where the working arrangement is limited to a certain period of time based on the needs of the employing organization. Temporary employees are sometimes ...
for a specified time
Transportation
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Gig (boat)
A gig is a type of boat optimised for speed under oar, but usually also fitted with a sailing rig for appropriate conditions. The type was in use by Deal boatmen in the 18th century. It first occurred as a naval ship's boat after Deal boatbuil ...
, or "captain′s gig", a boat used on naval ships as the captain's taxi
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Gig (carriage), a two-wheeled sprung cart to be pulled by a horse
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Cornish pilot gig, a six-oared rowing boat
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Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International Airport (IATA airport code), the main airport serving Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Giggleswick railway station
Giggleswick is a railway station on the Bentham Line, which runs between and via . The station, situated north-west of Leeds, serves the market town of Settle and the village of Giggleswick in North Yorkshire. It is owned by Network Rail and ...
(National Rail station code), Yorkshire, England
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Gig Car Share, a carsharing service in parts of the San Francisco Bay Area
Science and technology
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Gigabyte
The gigabyte () is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix ''giga'' means 109 in the International System of Units (SI). Therefore, one gigabyte is one billion bytes. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB.
This defini ...
(colloquial ''gig''), a computer unit of information
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Global Information Grid, a military global information network operated by the United States Department of Defense
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Generalized inverse Gaussian distribution, a distribution in probability theory
People
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Gig Gangel
Gig or GIG may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Gig (Circle Jerks album), ''Gig'' (Circle Jerks album) (1992)
* Gig (Northern Pikes album), ''Gig'' (Northern Pikes album) (1993)
* ''The Gig'', a 1985 film written and directed by Frank D. Gilroy ...
(born 1958), ''Playboy'' Playmate of the Month for January 1980
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Gig Morton (born 1996), Canadian actor
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Gig Ryan (born 1956), Australian poet born Elizabeth Anne Martina Ryan
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Gig Young (1913–1978), American actor born Byron Elsworth Barr
Other uses
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Gig-mill, a machine for the gigging of textiles that produce a fibrous and soft surface.
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Georgian Industrial Group, a holding company in Georgia
* Gig, a multi-pronged spear used in
gigging or hunting fish or small game
* Gig, the blade a professional wrestler uses to cut himself; See
List of professional wrestling terms
* GIG Cymru, the Welsh-language name for
NHS Wales
* KGIG-LP ("104.9 The Gig"), an FM radio station licensed to Modesto, California, US
See also
* Gig economy, the economy of those in temporary work
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Cornish pilot gig, a six-oared rowing boat
* Gigg (disambiguation)
* Giggs (disambiguation)
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