jug
1 of 2noun
ˈjəg 
plural jugs
1
a(1)
: a large deep container (as of glass, earthenware, or plastic) with a narrow mouth and a handle
(2)
: the contents of such a container : jugful
b
chiefly British : a small pitcher
2
: jail, prison
3
often vulgar : breast —usually used in plural
jug
2 of 2verb
jugged; jugging
transitive verb
1
: to stew (something, such as a hare) in an earthenware vessel
2
: jail, imprison
Synonyms
Noun
- bastille
- big house [slang]
- bridewell
- brig
- calaboose
- can
- clink [slang]
- cooler
- coop
- guardroom
- hock
- hold
- hoosegow
- jail
- jailhouse
- joint [slang]
- lockup
- nick [British slang]
- pen
- penitentiary
- pokey [slang]
- prison
- quod [British slang]
- slam
- slammer
- stir [slang]
- stockade
- tolbooth [Scottish]
Verb
- commit
- confine
- immure
- imprison
- incarcerate
- intern
- jail
- lock (up)
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
Noun some no-good fellow who had spent most of his life in and out of the county jug put a jug of milk on the table Verb the luckless crooks got jugged before they knew what hit them
Recent Examples on the Web
Adrian Miller, Bon Appétit, 23 Aug. 2022 His name on the claret jug includes his score of 268, the best ever on the Old Course. Doug Ferguson, Chron, 18 July 2022 His name on the claret jug includes his score of 268, the best ever on the Old Course. Doug Ferguson, Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2022 Smith made his last birdie and the engraver went to work on the claret jug, a prize first awarded to the 1873 champion at St. Andrews. Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2022 Describing all these features makes the jug and faucet sound like complicated products. Wes Siler, Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2022 Across the room, pinned to the wall, was an enlarged photographic image of an African American woman in a floral dress, sitting at a table on which there was a jug with a grotesque human face. The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022 Until recently, Ester, 12, would walk two miles from her home in Kiziba to the shore of Lake Kivu and back carrying a heavy plastic jug full of untreated lake water, her family's daily household supply. Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 1 June 2022 The show, which opens in Boston next year, includes a jug by Drake in the MFA’s collection and features a catalog essay coauthored by Bramwell and Lasser. Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022 John Moore/getty Images, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2019 See More
Noun
Once in the British North American colonies, slaveholders doled out weekly rations of a couple pounds of dried, pickled, salted, or smoked pork along with a few pounds of cornmeal and a jug of molasses to the enslaved. Adrian Miller, Bon Appétit, 23 Aug. 2022 His name on the claret jug includes his score of 268, the best ever on the Old Course. Doug Ferguson, Chron, 18 July 2022 His name on the claret jug includes his score of 268, the best ever on the Old Course. Doug Ferguson, Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2022 Smith made his last birdie and the engraver went to work on the claret jug, a prize first awarded to the 1873 champion at St. Andrews. Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2022 Describing all these features makes the jug and faucet sound like complicated products. Wes Siler, Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2022 Across the room, pinned to the wall, was an enlarged photographic image of an African American woman in a floral dress, sitting at a table on which there was a jug with a grotesque human face. The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022 Until recently, Ester, 12, would walk two miles from her home in Kiziba to the shore of Lake Kivu and back carrying a heavy plastic jug full of untreated lake water, her family's daily household supply. Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 1 June 2022 The show, which opens in Boston next year, includes a jug by Drake in the MFA’s collection and features a catalog essay coauthored by Bramwell and Lasser. Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022 Verb
No More Deaths published a report that documented the frequent destruction of the water jugs the group leaves throughout the southern desert for passing migrants. John Moore/getty Images, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2019 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun
perhaps from Jug, nickname for Joan
First Known Use
Noun
1538, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)
Verb
1747, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Phrases Containing jug
Kids Definition
jug
noun
ˈjəg
: a large deep usually earthenware or glass container with a narrow mouth and a handle
jugging
verb
as in imprisoning
to put in or as if in prison the luckless crooks got jugged before they knew what hit them Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- imprisoning
- jailing
- interning
- incarcerating
- catching
- committing
- confining
- detaining
- restraining
- arresting
- immuring
- capturing
- limiting
- restricting
- apprehending
- shutting
- locking (up)
- holding
- constraining
- keeping
- seizing
- pinching
- gating
- nabbing
- impressing
- busting
- shanghaiing
- barring
- enchaining
- shackling
- binding
- manacling
- handcuffing
- impounding
- fettering
- trammelling
- picking up
- trammeling
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- freeing
- discharging
- liberating
- releasing
- emancipating
- enfranchising
- unfettering
- uncaging
- manumitting
- unchaining
- unbinding