lig
verb
[ lɪɡ ]
• 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"
lig
noun
• a free party or show provided for publicity.
• "I wasn't interested in ligs, or freebies, or expenses"
Origin:
1960s: from a dialect variant of lie1, literally ‘lie about, loaf’, whence ‘freeload’.
