lug
UK/lʌɡ/
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Australia/lɐɡ/
lug noun: the act of hauling or dragging.
Noun (1)
lug (plural lugs)
- The act of hauling or dragging.
- a hard lug
- That which is hauled or dragged.
- The pack is a heavy lug.
- Anything that moves slowly.
- whereof the one is quick of cast, trick, and trim both for pleasure and profit: the other is a lug1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole of Shootinge […], London: […] Edouardi Whytchurch, →OCLC
- A lug nut.
- A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
- A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
- A large, clumsy, awkward man; a fool.
- Synonyms:
- big lug
- An ear or ear lobe.
- While shaving, the poor sod had a fit and cut part of a lug off.
- A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
- A request for money, as for political purposes.
- They put the lug on him at the courthouse.
- A lugworm.
- A pull or drag on a cigarette.
- He took another long lug on his cigarette before continuing quietly, 'I've seen too much and it was seriously screwing me up. […]2013, Paul Burke, The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife
Verb
lug (third-person singular simple present lugs, present participle lugging, simple past and past participle lugged)
- To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
- Why do you always lug around so many books?
- They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.c. 1700, Jeremy Collier, A Thought
- To run at too slow a speed.
- When driving up a hill, choose a lower gear so you don't lug the engine.
- To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
- To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.
Noun (2)
lug (plural lugs)
- A rod or pole.
- And from the bodies [of pines and oaks] the boughes and loftie lugges they beare.1567, George Turberville, Epitome
- A measure of length equal to 16+¹⁄₂ feet.
- eight lugs of grownd; / Into the which returning backe, he fell1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11
- Synonyms:
- rod
- A lugsail.
- The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
- A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
- A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
Noun (3) capitalized: LUG
LUG (plural LUGs)
- Initialism of lesbian until graduation.
- If “bi now, gay later” is one side of an offensive, disrespectful coin, the LUG (or “lesbian until graduation”) stereotype is its counterpart.2016, Lindsay King-Miller, Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls, Penguin, →ISBN
- Initialism of Linux user group.
Proper noun capitalized: Lug
Lug
- Alternative spelling of Lugh.
lug meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam
lug in Hindi
- लुग, लूग
lug in Marathi
- लुग
lug in Bengali
- লুগ
lug in Malayalam
- ലഗ്
More languagesFewer languages
- lug in Kannada
- ಲೂಗ್
- lug in Gujarati
- લુગ
- lug in Nepali
- लुग
Examples of lug in a sentence
- As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows.1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
- Luggage areas need to be within sight, rather than at the end of carriages, despite the inconvenience of lugging cases further into a carriage.2021 July 14, Anthony Lambert, “Grand designs on superior interiors”, in RAIL, number 935, page 48:
Synonyms of lug
Forms of lug
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lugs |
| plural | LUGs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lugs |
| present participle | lugging |
| past participle | lugged |
| past | lugged |
Origin of lug
From Middle English luggen, possibly from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source, (compare Swedish lugga, Norwegian lugge); also in English dialectal as lig (“to lug”). Noun is via Scots lugge, probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian and Swedish lugg). Probably related to slug (“lazy, slow-moving”), which may be from similar source(s).
From Middle English lugge (“pole, stick, staff”).
Words formed from lug
Phrases with lug
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Questions about lug
- What does lug mean?
- Lug means the act of hauling or dragging.
- What is lug in Hindi?
- Lug in Hindi is लुग, लूग. See Lug meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use lug in a sentence?
- As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows.
- What part of speech is lug?
- Lug can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce lug?
- Lug is pronounced /lʌɡ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of lug?
- The plural of lug is lugs.
Words near lug in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: lug (page history and authors); LUG (page history and authors); Lug (page history and authors); lug (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lug (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lug (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lug (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lug (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lug (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lug (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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