digs

Lodgings; place of accommodation.

Noun colloquial, plural

  1. Lodgings; place of accommodation.
    • Corley at the first go-off was inclined to suspect it was something to do with Stephen being fired out of his digs for bringing in a bloody tart off the street. - 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses,...
    • Our new digs are at the corner of Market and Castro – a great and gay neighborhood that will be a pleasure to work in. The new office has room for four women to work comfortably, a tiny deck and back yard, and looks out...
  2. Clothes.
    • For example, when “army digs” are in, the Jocks wear them; when designer jeans are fashionable, those who can afford them wear them. - 1992, R. Patrick Solomon, Black Resistance in High School: Forging a Separatist...
    • I donned my new digs and found a trash can in which to dump my stinky old clothes. - 2014, Stephanie Caffrey, Vegas Stripped, page 95:

Origin

Clipping of diggings.

Noun form of, plural

  1. plural of dig

Verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dig