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Green’s Dictionary of Slang

gig n.⁴

also gige, gigg

a door (cf. jig n.³).

1719		A. Smith Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) 208: Milling the Gig with a Betty, i.e., Breaking open the Door with an iron-crow.
1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: Mill the Gig with your Betty; i.e. Break open the Door with your Instrument.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: Mill the Gig with a Dub, To open the Door with a Pick-lock, or false Key.
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict. 14: A Door – Gige.
c.1785		‘The Dog and Duck Rig’ in Holloway & Black I (1975) 79: Then tips you the hint at the gig.
1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1828		Lytton Pelham III 292: I’ll close the gig of the crib.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum 37: gig A door. ‘Dub the gig of the casa,’ break open the door of the house.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 32: Gig, a door.

In phrases

dub the gig (v.)

see under dub v.¹

strike the gig (v.) (also strike the gygg, ...jigger)

(UK Und.) to open a door.

1718		C. Hitchin Regulator 19: To strike the Gygg, alias to unlock the Door.
1768		(con. 1710–25) Tyburn Chronicle II in Groom (1999) xxviii: To Strike the Gigg To unlock the Door.
1857		‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 35: To strike the jigger, to pick a lock.
1859		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 104: Strike the jigger to pick the lock, or break open the door.
1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1873		Sl. Dict.
1881		Newcastle Courant 25 Nov. 6/5: She can strike the jigger to regular tradesmen like ourselves while the omee lies in letty and dreams.
1901		Argus (Melbourne) 20 Sept. 6/4: He may strike the jigger, or if his specialty be windows then fly the glaze, which means raise it or star the glaze, or milk the glaze which means break it, while going through it back window is described as the back jump, or going the jump .