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Plural of keg

regular plural

The plural of keg is kegs.

Forms of keg

Singularkeg /kɛɡ/
Pluralkegs
Countablecountable

Kegs in a sentence

  • Go hork the kegs from out back.From the entry hork
  • Kegs of beer were set up around every corner.2010 March 22, Dan Wiederer, “‘I’ll Do It if Bob Does It’”, in Blue Streak: The Highs, Lows and Behind the Scenes Hijinks of a National…. From the entry luge
  • I'd drunk at least a barload of rum and three kegs of whisky between my last love and this arrow shaft.1994, Carmen Boullosa, The Miracle-Worker, page 77. From the entry barload
  • It would also be nice to see a few kegs and some spirit around their awaited creation each night.1978 November 14, Jeff Boylan, “Excerpts”, in Bob Wasserman, editor, The Tech, volume 98, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, archived from the…. From the entry geek
  • The top people and elders had monopolized it, leaving the young people with two kegs of sour palm-wine.1963, Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease, Penguin Classics (2010), page 64. From the entry palm-wine

Meaning of keg

  1. noun A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
  2. verb To store in a keg.
  3. verb The pulling down of someone's trousers or kegs, oftentimes as a kind of bullying or prank.

Full definition of keg

Questions about the plural of keg

What is the plural of keg?
The plural of keg is kegs.
Is keg countable?
Keg is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: keg (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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