lig
/lɪɡ
/British informal
verb (ligs, ligging, ligged) [no object]
Take advantage of free parties, travel, or other benefits offered by companies for publicity purposes: instead of touring, the band spent all their time fighting and ligging...
- It's been a wonderful week; I've dined on five-star nosh in a brand-new old-style luxury chalet; I've ligged around Val D' Isere like a bone fide, rich-bint ‘It’ person and frothed around in the same jacuzzi recently occupied by Bono.
- Instead of dedicating themselves to breaking America by touring, they spent all their time fighting and ligging.
- Chris and I are on a guest list for Thursday - fancy ligging it?
noun
A free party or show provided for publicity: I wasn’t interested in ligs, or freebies, or expenses...
- The revolutionary socialists only agreed to cease their protest when they were invited to an after-show lig in one of the capital's most expensive pubs.
- He cast around for writers associated with music, but not the usual line-up of cliché-ridden rock journos, ever ready to deliver a great review for the price of a good lig.
- Showing their support - or love of a good lig - a full complement of Cook's posse had come out to Brazil.
Derivatives
ligger
/ noun ...- In tribute to the author's former life in the demi-monde of journalism there were liggers aplenty at what it inaccurately called ‘the birth of an Edinburgh-based legend’.
- Hundreds of stars, celebs, wannabes and liggers are air-kissing and back-biting their way through a string of posh parties in the capital tonight and tomorrow.
- After 6pm, when the gardens shut, we hosted the Unofficial After Party, dispensing gallons of chilled rosé to exhibitors and liggers alike.
Origin
1960s: from a dialect variant of lie1, literally 'lie about, loaf', whence 'freeload'.