Usually means: Manipulate or control unfairly or fraudulently.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. rig: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rig, rig: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rig: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rig: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rig: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rig, rig: Wordnik
  7. rig: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rig: Wiktionary
  9. rig: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rig: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rig: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. RIG: Dictionary.com
  13. rig (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rig: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rig (disambiguation), Rig (fishing), Rig (stage lighting), Rig, The Rig: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rig: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rig: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rig: Rhymezone
  19. rig: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rig: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Rig: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. rig: Free Dictionary
  23. rig: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rig: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. rig-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rig: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rig: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RIG: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. RIG: Acronym Finder
  2. RIG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. rig: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)
  2. rig, rig: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rig, rig, rig, rig, rig, rig, rig: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Rig: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rig: Skydiving Glossary
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Rig: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. RIG: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See rigged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
noun:  Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
noun:  (US) A large truck such as a semi-trailer truck.
noun:  The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
noun:  (informal) A costume or an outfit.
noun:  (slang, computing) A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
noun:  An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
noun:  (slang) Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
noun:  (slang) Equipment used for taking recreational drugs.
noun:  (animation) A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.
verb:  (transitive) To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
verb:  (transitive, manufacturing) To move (a heavy object) with the help of slings, hoists, block and tackle, levers, or similar equipment.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
verb:  (transitive) To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
verb:  (transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, animation) To outfit a model with controls for animation.
noun:  (Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A ridge.
noun:  (obsolete) A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
noun:  A promiscuous woman.
noun:  (obsolete) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
noun:  (obsolete) A blast of wind.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
noun:  (algebra, ring theory) An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.

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