digs
noun/dɪɡz/
Etymology Clipping of diggings.
1
Colloquial 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, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- 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 on two trees.1993, “[Editor's note]”, in Feminist Bookstore News, volume 16, page 1:
2
Colloquial 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 Culture, page 41:
- 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: