• (British, America) IPA: /tɹɪɡ/, [t̠ʰɹ̠̊ɪɡ]

trig (comparative trigger, superlative triggest)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) Safe; secure.
3. (now chiefly dialectal) Tight; firm; steady; sound; in good condition or health.
4. Neat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart.

   • To sit on a horse square and trig.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, […].

   • 1973, Newsweek, April 16

     The [torture] stories seemed incongruent with the men telling them – a trim, trig lot who, given a few pounds more flesh, might have stepped right out of a recruiting poster.

5. (now chiefly dialectal) Active; clever.

trig (plural trigs)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A dandy; coxcomb.

trig

1. (uncountable) Trigonometry.
2. (surveying, countable, informal) A trigonometric point, trig point.

trig (plural trigs)

1. (UK) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
2. The mark for players at skittles, etc.

trig (trigs, present participle trigging; past and past participle trigged)

1. (transitive) To stop (a wheel, barrel, etc.) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.

trig (trigs, present participle trigging; past and past participle trigged)

1. To fill; to stuff; to cram.

trig (plural trigs)

1. (medicine, informal) triglyceride