do/play/have a gig• You can't beatplaying a gig, you get such a buzz off it.• Some bands think that just playing gigs will be enough to attract a following.• I had got totally pissed and had to do a gig that night.• Soon after Ling left, Gish was invited to return, though only to play gigs.• The only problem is, one of them's still only thirteen and has to get time off school to play gigs.• The incident happened in Pittsburgh where the band were playing a gig.
APMto give a performance of modern popular music or jazz 演奏现代流行音乐[爵士乐]
Examples from the Corpus
gig• We were gigging and getting well paid for it.• After a couple of years gigging at festivals, clubs and raves.• They were the ultimateroad band, gigging everywhere.• That was the first time I'd had any money out of gigging in a year.• I lovegigging in the South although, oddly, it's the only place we've ever receiveddeaththreats.• The band, who've been gigging only sporadically, will play at least one London show before the end of November.
From Longman Business Dictionary
giggig /gɪg/ noun [countableC] informal
1American EnglishAmEJOB a job, especially one that does not last for a long time