rig v.2
1. to play tricks on, to fool.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘The Taylor’s Wanton Wife of Wapping’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 485: Alas! he did leave her, / Whereby to rig her, when she should awake, / Since she did rob him, he vow’d to deceive her. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Gentleman’s Bottle-Companion 6: The males they laugh at me, alas! / The females too, they rig me. | |
| ‘Bill Bounce’ in Convivialist in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 26: ’Twere shame to rig so sad a wight. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Wkly Rake (NY) 18 June n.p.: the rake advises [...] J. L. X. [should] not make himself poor by giving so much money to them girls in Houston street; for they are only rigging him . | |
| Sam Slick’s Wise Saws II 157: I don’t like to be rigged that way. Will you just tell me what you are at? | |
| in Honest Rainmaker (1991) 80: Though turning 82, ‘Jim’ can still rig a nice fat boob with anybody. |
2. to abuse, to tease, thus rigging, a telling-off, a scolding.
| ‘Going Out a Nesting’ in New Cockalorum Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) II 29: The rest ven they their faces show, / Do all get rigged and laughed at so. | |
| Picking from the Picayune 25: I only requests that her birds won’t be riggin’ me ’bout my politics. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Adelaide Obs. (SA) 24 Sept. 2/6: For a scolding he always comes in far a wigging, / A rowing, a jawing, a lipping, or rigging. |
3. to manipulate illegally.
| Still Waters Run Deep II ii: There’s only one thing for it—we must rig the market. Go in and buy up every share that’s offered. | |
| Sportsman 11 Nov. 2/1: Notes on News [...] ‘I do not call working up to 3 or 4 premium without bona fide purchasers “rigging the market”’. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 13 June 9/1: The villain meets with his deserts, and Denver settles down to raise a family and rig a ‘corner’ in silver. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 9 Aug. 17/1: [A]ll the flattering telegrams [...] re the training performances of Kirkham [...] were mere bookmakers’ fakes to rig the market. | |
| Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 22 May 1/6: How they fix and rig the jockeys. | |
| Chimmie Fadden and Mr Paul 102: [I] was trying to rig a graft what would jolly Duchess to stand for anodder treat, when I sees Whiskers and Widdy float in. | |
| City Of The World 260: He’ll rig a ring of wrong ’uns on both sides o’ the pond. | |
| London Town 24: The amazing spectacle of a Cabinet Minister ‘rigging’ the Film Censorship. | |
| Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 95: Showed him how to rig the Three-Card game. | |
| I Can Get It For You Wholesale 65: Something’s rigged up around here! | |
| Phenomena in Crime 80: From ‘rigged’ race-cards to counterfeit admission tickets. | |
| Big Heat 117: He had learnt that everything was rigged — the police, the courts, politics, elections, the whole damn city. | |
| Yarns of Billy Borker 71: What about the race they tried to rig? | |
| (con. 1960s) Whoreson 222: A game that was already rigged to rip-off the tricks. | |
| Too Much Too Soon (1986) 476: That turd Ivory must’ve [...] rigged the bids. | |
| (con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 20: Would you be willing to rig crime scene evidence to support a prosecuting attorney’s working hypothesis? | |
| White Shoes 127: Him and that team flog dodgy real estate up here and rig horse races, among other things. | |
| Guardian G2 4 Apr. 5: Keeping quiet about Cap’n Bob’s rigging of the accounts. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Braywatch 3: ‘Seeing as he rigged the election and everything’. |
In phrases
1. of a pimp, to set up a potential customer with a woman [jig n.4 (2)].
| Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. |
2. of a confidence man, to set up a victim for deception [jig n.2 (1)].
| Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. |