gillespie
- n United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993)
gig
- n long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
- n an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- n a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting
- n tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain
- n small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood
- n a booking for musicians
they played a gig in New Jersey
gigabit
- n a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits
gillette
- n United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932)
gigabyte
- n a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
- n a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
gigantism
- n excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland
- n excessive largeness of stature
giggle
- n a foolish or nervous laugh
- v laugh nervously
The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom
gigo
- n (computer science) a rule stating that the quality of the output is a function of the quality of the input; put garbage in and you get garbage out