lug
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Is lug a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (automotive) A lug nut.
2. (electrical engineering) 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.
3. (UK) An ear or ear lobe.Examples: "While shaving, the poor sod had a fit and cut part of a lug off."UK
4. (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.Examples: "They put the lug on him at the courthouse."slang
5. (informal) A pull or drag on a cigarette.Examples: "He took another long lug on his cigarette before continuing quietly, 'I've seen too much and it was seriously screwing me up. […]"informal
verb (English)
1. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.Examples: "Why do you always lug around so many books?"; "They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share."; "As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me."figurativelysometimestransitive
2. (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.Examples: "When driving up a hill, choose a lower gear so you don't lug the engine."transitive
3. (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.transitive
4. (intransitive, horse-racing) To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.intransitive
noun (English)
1. (UK, dialect) A rod or pole.Examples: "And from the bodies [of pines and oaks] the boughes and loftie lugges they beare."UKdialectal
2. (UK, archaic, dialect) A measure of length equal to 16+¹⁄₂ feet.Examples: "eight lugs of grownd; / Into the which returning backe, he fell"Synonyms: rodUKarchaicdialectal
3. (nautical) A lugsail.
4. (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
noun (English)
1. (computing) Initialism of Linux user group.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
Definition source: Wiktionary