Definitions for rug

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rug rug

Spelling: [ruhg]

IPA: /rʌg/

Rug is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in rug (gru).

Definitions for rug

noun

1. a thick fabric for covering part of a floor, often woven of wool and often having an oblong shape with a border design. Compare carpet.
2. the treated skin of an animal, used as a floor covering:
3. Chiefly British. a piece of thick, warm cloth, used as a coverlet, lap robe, etc.
4. Slang. toupee; hairpiece.

Idioms

1. cut a rug, Older Slang. to dance, especially to jitterbug.

Origin of rug

1545-55; Old Norse rǫgg wool, long hairs; compare Norwegian rugga covering of coarse wool, Swedish rugg coarse hair

Examples for rug

That is, until he ditches the crutches and really cuts a rug, to the delight of everyone looking on.

I thought you might look for a rug, but I'd rather go with you to select it.

The “24-hour news cycle” just makes them harder to sweep under the rug and ignore.

A barefoot corpse in camouflaged khakis is being carried into the street, partially wrapped in rug, as I enter the house.

Now the Supreme Leader has pulled the rug from under him in a public speech.

And on that rug was a fine representation of Mars, the god of war.

He had the air of laying at her feet, as a rug, the whole glorious history of France.

She stepped off the rug, went to the "express office," and took a card from the desk.

Or, to put it more accurately: conflict is inevitably swept under the rug, at any and all costs.

"There it goes now," cried the child, jumping up from the rug.