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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who captures fish by means of the gig; a gigger.
  • noun One who keeps or drives a gig.
  • noun A person of narrow ideas, deficient in liberal culture, but possessed of accidental advantages, who assumes superiority; a philistine: a term much affected by Thomas Carlyle.

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