Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • CEOofmyhouse56
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    62 years ago

    People can get things very wrong. Have a look at the bozo answers. Australian slang I get that you might never have heard it. It doesn’t mean the op is wrong though.

    • StudSpud The Starchy
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      62 years ago

      People enjoy shitting on others to make themselves feel superior. It’s gross. I have not heard of ‘gig’ in that context, but I didn’t grow up in every single state, city, and town in Aus simultaneously. OP is just trying to the slang-etymology for that usage, doesn’t mean they’re wrong. Netizens can be so cuntish.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 years ago

      probably from goog, meaning eggs, google ( not the number or search engine ) eyes ( big round eyes ) /goggle eyes

      I am old as fuck 😂

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        We used to say “take a goog at that”. It also kinda rhymes with look.

        There is Squwiz. As in squeeze your eyes/squint to focus. A butcher’s, butcher’s hook/look.

    • Hongohones
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      72 years ago

      reddit has turned in to a steaming pile of crap. or maybe it was always like that. thankful we moved away for our special kind of banter. A gig is a job, a kind of horse cart but I’d never heard of being a sticky beak slang term, learn something every day. I’ll never quite understand why people bother to waste time being jerks online.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      A “gig” is a job, usually referring to bands playing a show. That is all it has ever meant.

      Sums up Reddit in a nutshell. “Only MY way of using a word is correct. Everyone else is a fucking idiot who can’t speak English.”

    • PeelerSheila
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      42 years ago

      I was sufficiently moved by the confidently incorrect assertions of some of the respondents to this post to add my own contribution. Yes, I know people that use the word “gig” in this manner, and u/Positive_Complaint had to dust off her 3rd party app and add her 5c!