Definitions for LUG

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LUG lug

Spelling: [luhg]

IPA: /lʌg/

Lug is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in LUG (glu).

Definitions for LUG

noun

1. an act or instance of lugging; a forcible pull; haul.
2. a wooden box for transporting fruit or vegetables.
3. Slang. a request for or exaction of money, as for political purposes:
4. a projecting piece by which anything is held or supported.
5. a ridge or welt that helps to provide traction, as on a tire or the sole of a shoe.
6. Masonry. either of the ends of a lug sill.
7. Carpentry. (in a double-hung window) one of a pair of projections extending downward from the ends of the meeting rail of the upper sash.
8. a leather loop hanging down from a saddle, through which a shaft is passed for support.
9. Shipbuilding. clip2 (def 6).
10. Slang. an awkward, clumsy fellow. a blockhead. a man; guy.
11. lugsail.
12. lugworm.
13. an ancient Irish god, probably a solar deity.

verb (used with object)

1. to pull or carry with force or effort:
2. to introduce or interject in an inappropriate or irrelevant manner:
3. (of a sailing ship) to carry an excessive amount of (sail) for the conditions prevailing.

verb (used without object)

1. to pull or tug laboriously.
2. (of an engine or machine) to jerk, hesitate, or strain:

Origin of LUG

1300-50; Middle English luggen Scandinavian; compare Norwegian lugge, Swedish lugga to pull by the hair

Examples for LUG

The macho guys could lug up buckets of water, which are sorely needed to flush toilets.

No bulky helmet to lug around or uncomfortable shell to ruin your hairstyle.

The clip played with the belabored simplicity of a silent movie—one lug and two thugs, brandished gun and chain-snatch.

I'll fetch those clams ashore if I have to lug 'em with my teeth.

"Gi'e him a slab ower the lug," shouted the miller from the road.

That's Grey Graham, setting folk by the lug with his blusteration.

Darren was the kind of man who'd lug a sofa bed up three flights of stairs without a whisper of complaint.

Really, for an old man, you must have had a heavy job to lug it along.

I mean, what an incredibly annoying gift to have to lug home.

You're not going to be so foolish as to lug that baby along?