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sig¹

  • /sɪɡ/

Sounds like cig · Rhymes with -ɪɡ

Where it comes from

Clipping of signature.

noun sigs

  1. Internet, informal A signature, especially one on emails or newsgroup postings. Your sig should ideally be four or five lines long, six or seven at the maximum. Since it will be repeated on hundreds of messages, a long signature wastes bandwidth and is therefore rude.

sig²

  • /sɪɡ/

Sounds like cig · Rhymes with -ɪɡ

Where it comes from

Clipping of signify (“to boast, brag, insult”).

verb sigs · sigging · sigged

  1. intransitive, slang To good-naturedly make fun of someone; to signify. And it is a matter of pride. No Black person wants to be "sigged" about or capped all over.

    Similar: banter, jone

sig³

  • /sɪɡ/

Sounds like cig · Rhymes with -ɪɡ

Where it comes from

Clipping of sigma.

noun sigs

  1. Sigma (in the names of Greek-letter organizations). Sig Chi; Kappa Sig; Sig Nu
  2. abbreviation, humorous, slang Short for sigma in phrases like "what the sigma" What the sig is this?

sig⁴

  • /sɪɡ/

Sounds like cig · Rhymes with -ɪɡ

Where it comes from

From Middle English sige. Cognate with Middle Dutch seic, seike, Middle Low German seyche. Related also to sink (“to fall”).

noun zigg

  1. UK, dated, dialectal, uncountable Urine.

SIG⁵

noun SIGs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of special interest group

Sig⁶

proper noun

  1. A male given name from German Siegfried

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: signature, signal, pci, pc, gis, mis, board, signing, ims, giss, sauer, imis, iog, sgi, sigs, endorsement

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sig. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sig

Chicago

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@misc{sig_2026,
  title = {sig},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sig},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}