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digs
noun- lodgings, be it a room, flat, or house UK, 1893
An abbreviation of the earlier (1830s) “diggings”. In the UK theatrical “digs” have a long and colourful history with most venues still providing a “digs-list” for touring players. - This is an important courtesy, and one that you will appreciate, too, if you can establish it as Standard Operating Procedure around your digs. — Dick Clark, To Goof or Not to Goof, p. 69, 1963
- He smoked too many cigs / Lived in one room in Victoria / He was tidy in his digs[.] — Ian Dury, My Old Man, 1977
- “Having this messengered to your digs after numerous calls to reputed place of employ.” — Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, p. 89, 1984
- The other tenants included a children’s photographer, a C.P.A., an optometrist and an office for the landlord, who used the digs as a place to clip coupons and get away from his wife[.] — Joseph Wambaugh, Fugitive Nights, p. 44, 1992
- I am staying with a nice family in their digs across the river in the Deccan Gymkhana district. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 404, 1993
- I’m stopping in digs in different towns towns and seeing the backstage of all these different theatres. — Ben Elton, High Society, p. 214, 2002
- a job US
- — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Underground Dictionary, p. 24, 1973
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