gigger

Pronged fish hunter

A gigger is someone who works gigs—short-term jobs or freelance engagements rather than traditional employment: The app connects giggers with same-day delivery work.

The term emerged with the gig economy, describing drivers, freelancers, and contract workers who piece together income from multiple sources.

Also, someone who gigs frogs—spears them with a multi-pronged tool called a gig.

musician

band

Group playing music together

keyboardist · sideman · session · club · venue · set · booking · freelance · hired · fill-in

spearfishing

prong

Pointed projecting part

  • spearPole with sharp point
  • flounderStruggle awkwardly, or seafood
  • eelElongated scaleless fish

carp · wading · nighttime · lantern · spotlight · shallow · creek · swamp · bayou · skewer

freelancer

contract

Enforceable written agreement

independent · flexible · piecework · temp · on-demand · earner · worker · precarious · moonlighter

Opposites
fishing method

giggerangler

One who casts lines

fly fisherman · caster · troller · trapper · crabber

hunting approach

giggerice fisherman

One who angles through holes in frozen water

Family

giggly, gigging, gigged, giggers

Familiarity
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