jugging

Verb (1)

jug (third-person singular simple present jugs, present participle jugging, simple past and past participle jugged)

1. (transitive) To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
   • jugged hare
2. (slang, transitive) To put into jail.
3. (intransitive) To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
   • Down in the orchard a nightingale jug-jugged, as if he, too, had dropped into a soft billet.1916, R. Austin Freeman, chapter 8, in The Exploits of Danby Croker
4. (intransitive) To nestle or collect together in a covey.

Verb (2)

jug (third-person singular simple present jugs, present participle jugging, simple past and past participle jugged)

1. (US, transitive, Jesuit schools) To issue a detention (to a student).
   • Students would say they “got JUGged,” meaning they’d been disciplined by a teacher. Most of the time punishment entailed memorizing a passage of a text or an obscure snatch of poetry.2007 June 19, Julia Flynn Siler, The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty, New York City: Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 60

Verb (3)

jug (third-person singular simple present jugs, present participle jugging, simple past and past participle jugged)

1. (slang) To hustle or make money, usually aggressively.

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