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sug

sug verb: to market a product or service by means of purported market research.

Verb

sug (third-person singular simple present sugs, present participle sugging, simple past and past participle sugged)

  1. (informal) To market a product or service by means of purported market research.

Noun

sug (plural not attested)

  1. (informal, no plural) sugar; sweetheart (as a term of endearment)
    • “Hey, sug, let's go into the family room so we don't wake up your daddy, OK?”2011, Yvette Wright, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Side of Black Women, page 124
    • She called everybody sug, as in sugar, as in, 'Listen, sug, could you get me another Manhattan?'2013, James Oseland, Giles Coren, Tamasin Day-Lewis, A Fork In The Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery On The Road

sug meaning in Tamil

sug in Tamil

சாயல்

Forms of sug

third-person singular presentsugs
present participlesugging
past participlesugged
pastsugged

Origin of sug

From the initial letters of selling under the guise of research, especially in the market industry.

Shortening.

Questions about sug

What does sug mean?
Sug means to market a product or service by means of purported market research.
What is sug in Tamil?
Sug in Tamil is சாயல். See Sug meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sug?
Sug can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of sug?
The past tense of sug is sugged.

Words near sug in the dictionary

  1. sufosfamide
  2. sufotidine
  3. sufuria
  4. sufurias
  5. Sufyan
  6. sug
  7. Suga
  8. Sugahara
  9. Sugaharas
  10. sugammadex
  11. Sugamo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sug (page history and authors); sug (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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