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chug-a-lug

chug-a-lug is the alternative form of chugalug.

Meaning of chugalug

Verb

chugalug (third-person singular simple present chugalugs, present participle chugalugging, simple past and past participle chugalugged)

  1. (US, intransitive, transitive) To swallow (a container of beer etc.) without pausing.

See all 3 meanings of chugalug

Forms of chug-a-lug

Verb
third-person singular presentchug-a-lugs
present participlechug-a-lugging
past participlechug-a-lugged
pastchug-a-lugged
Noun
pluralchug-a-lugs

Questions about chug-a-lug

What is chug-a-lug the alternative form of?
Chug-a-lug is the alternative form of chugalug.

Words near chug-a-lug in the dictionary

  1. Chufou
  2. chug
  3. chug away
  4. chug wagon
  5. chug wagons
  6. chug-a-lug
  7. chug-a-lugged
  8. chug-a-lugging
  9. chug-a-lugs
  10. chug-chug wagon
  11. chug-chug wagons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chug-a-lug (page history and authors); chugalug (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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