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the apparatus of consequence, built to extract, deceive, or haul depending on who's pulling levers.
means To set up or arrange something — a vehicle, a sailing vessel's masts and sails, or equipment — though it also means to fix or manipulate an outcome dishonestly.
from Nautical at heart: 'rig' meant to fit a ship with its ropes, sails, and spars, recorded in English from around the 15th century and likely borrowed from a Scandinavian source — compare Norwegian dialect 'rigga,' to wrap or bind up. From clothing a ship it spread to clothing a person ('rigged out'), then to any setup or contraption. The crooked sense — to 'rig' an election or a market — is a later figurative twist, the same gear repurposed to fix the game rather than fit the mast.
- oil giants
- Offshore rigs can stand taller than skyscrapers underwater.
- crooked games
- To rig means to fix an outcome secretly beforehand.
- sailing roots
- Originally meant fitting a ship with ropes and sails.
- truck slang
- Drivers call their big rigs by name.
- gamer flex
- A PC rig signals serious computing horsepower.
deepwater horizon — oil rig explosion in gulf of mexico, 2010, killed 11 workers and caused largest environmental disaster in us history
piper alpha — north sea oil platform that caught fire in 1988, killing 167 people in deadliest offshore accident
hibernia platform — offshore oil and gas production platform east of newfoundland, canada, operational since 1997