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verblugged, lugs, lugging lʌɡləɡ 1with object and adverbial of direction Carry or drag (a heavy or bulky object) with great effort. she began to lug her suitcase down the stairs Example sentencesExamples - When everything was packed, she lugged her heavy book bag onto the bed and started doing her homework.
- Right now at this moment you're lugging heavy boxes of books down the stairs and I can't even begin to tell her how much that means.
- As I was coming out, lugging the heavy bucket along, I heard two familiar voices speaking softly.
- I grabbed the heavy book and lugged it over to a cherrywood table.
- He regularly covered 30 miles in a day lugging a rucksack heavy with specimens.
- On the cobbles in front of the lower site, he saw James lugging his heavy bag to the coach driver, who shoved it into the coach's large hold.
- Staff were having to lug heavy oxygen tanks up and down and there was a problem with taking food up for patients.
- I lugged my heavy bags upstairs and dropped them with a thud in the middle of the room.
- The three headed up the porch steps, Kimberly and Gabe lugging their bags.
- Bottled water critics grumble about the price and the heavy bottles they have to lug home.
- Tobias sighed heavily as he lugged his equally heavy books to his first class, Word Processing.
- And why should people struggle home from supermarkets lugging heavy bottles of water?
- Val obediently lugged her suitcase out again and packed her small amount of clothes.
- Willow came down the stairs, lugging a suitcase and wearing a backpack.
- With a big sigh they started lugging their bags out of the rusty car.
- Between the two of them, they managed to pick up all of Amy's suitcases and then they began to slowly lug them towards the lifts.
- She sighed and lugged the bucket up the steps and into the house.
- James was lugging a heavy box around, back facing Leanne.
- Then, as Rich gawked, the leopard gripped its catch by the neck and, without too much effort, lugged it twenty feet straight up an acacia tree.
- Parents, are you tired of lugging your child's bulky car seat through crowded, security-clogged airports?
Synonyms carry, lift, bear, tote, heave, hoist, shoulder, manhandle haul, drag, pull, tug, tow, transport, move, take, bring, convey, shift, fetch informal hump, schlep Scottish informal humph - 1.1 Be encumbered with.
don't worry about lugging the kids to the salon with you Example sentencesExamples - Worse yet, Japan's banks face daunting competitive pressures while lugging all this negative baggage.
nounPlural lugs lʌɡləɡ A box or crate used for transporting fruit. a truck piled high with wooden lugs of grapes
Origin Late Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin: compare with Swedish lugga 'pull a person's hair' (from lugg 'forelock'). Rhymes bug, chug, Doug, drug, dug, fug, glug, hug, jug, mug, plug, pug, rug, shrug, slug, smug, snug, thug, trug, tug nounPlural lugs lʌɡləɡ 1usually lugsNorthern English Scottish informal A person's ear. I couldn't hear what they were saying with that leather over my lugs Example sentencesExamples - His latest strategy - which he's toyed with before but is introducing in force this year - targets the lugs of youth, which he believes can be attuned to classical music once prised from more strident stimulations.
2A projection on an object by which it may be carried or fixed in place. mount the fitting directly to the lugs at each side of the box Example sentencesExamples - The stock attaches to a lug at the bottom rear of the grip frame.
- Each fan is securely held in place by a plastic frame that includes lugs to fit in the fan mounting holes, and opposing clips to hold the fan in place.
- On the Tiber side, however, Piranesi has had to adjust the placement of the upper side of the lug to make it fit as tightly against the Tiber bank as the main corner of the compound.
- In attaching the units, each one was floated to its proper position and two lugs were inserted in their sockets in the hull.
- Locking lug recesses are integral, with the barrel and the three bolt lugs lock directly into the barrel.
- The small contact area and the fair amount of force needed to secure the clip into place, made pushing it down onto the lugs quite hard.
- The use of pre-set anchor lugs in the subbase to prevent long-term slab movements on the steep grade prevented concrete trucks from backing down the grade to deliver concrete.
- When hitting the frames together strike the aluminium not the plastic lug.
- Gently hooking the single clip to a lug on one side of the socket, I then slowly dropped the Volcano into place and used a flathead screwdriver to fasten the clip to the other lug.
- Remington's has a pair of lugs on either side of the bottom barrel that mate with corresponding cuts in the frame.
- The distinctive cushion-shaped case has thin wire lugs soldered onto it, with a leather strap that's long enough to be worn over a wetsuit.
- He has employed a clip which attaches to all three lugs on each side.
- A traverse gearbox unit is pivoted on mounting lugs attached to the back of the saddle.
- Basically, the receiver carries two massive ‘C’ shaped lugs that engage similar shaped seats in the sides of the block.
- The forearm is shipped from the factory without being fitted to the forearm lug.
3North American informal A loutish man. he plays a hood who, despite his fancy clothes, remains a lug Example sentencesExamples - I don't know what it was about him- maybe it was the image of this poor big lug standing in the middle of a Texas highway watching everything he had worked for vanish into the distance.
- She is far from immune to the lovable Raymond, but she really carries a torch for his big lug of a brother.
- They think it's time someone taught a lesson to George, a genuinely irritating lug who, like the rest of the characters, has more going on inside than is immediately apparent.
- Maybe that big lug might have been a good choice to come along.
- Am I now expected to going back to rooting for this selfish lug?
- Lewis needed two navigators, two watch captains, and two more primary helmsmen, plus some big, strong lugs to grind the deck winches, and versatile guys who could handle the bow and the mast.
- And how come only those two and that lug have seen her?
- You silly lug, I thought you were only stupid about law, not everything!
- Like a big, goofy lug, Jerry gave the biggest smile ever, and his heart began to flutter with anxiety.
- In fact, one in five astronauts is a nice-but-dopey lug who yearns to see them Dodgers in the Brooklyn pinstripes again.
- Now it's referring to the same big lug who met his fate thanks to David's slingshot.
Origin Late 15th century (denoting the ear flap of a hat): probably of Scandinavian origin: compare with Swedish lugg 'forelock, nap of cloth'. (sense 3) is perhaps from the 19th-century term denoting the lowest grade of tobacco. nounPlural lugs lʌɡləɡ short for lugworm Example sentencesExamples - The bulk of cod fishing is done with worm baits, usually lugworm due to the copious amounts of blood juice the lug holds, but also ragworm.
- The best baits are mackerel and squid strips cut about three to four inches long by about half an inch wide - or maybe king ragworm or lug.
verbləɡləɡ 1with object and adverbial of direction Carry or drag (a heavy or bulky object) with great effort. she began to lug her suitcase down the stairs Example sentencesExamples - Tobias sighed heavily as he lugged his equally heavy books to his first class, Word Processing.
- Right now at this moment you're lugging heavy boxes of books down the stairs and I can't even begin to tell her how much that means.
- The three headed up the porch steps, Kimberly and Gabe lugging their bags.
- Willow came down the stairs, lugging a suitcase and wearing a backpack.
- When everything was packed, she lugged her heavy book bag onto the bed and started doing her homework.
- He regularly covered 30 miles in a day lugging a rucksack heavy with specimens.
- As I was coming out, lugging the heavy bucket along, I heard two familiar voices speaking softly.
- Val obediently lugged her suitcase out again and packed her small amount of clothes.
- James was lugging a heavy box around, back facing Leanne.
- Then, as Rich gawked, the leopard gripped its catch by the neck and, without too much effort, lugged it twenty feet straight up an acacia tree.
- With a big sigh they started lugging their bags out of the rusty car.
- Between the two of them, they managed to pick up all of Amy's suitcases and then they began to slowly lug them towards the lifts.
- Staff were having to lug heavy oxygen tanks up and down and there was a problem with taking food up for patients.
- Parents, are you tired of lugging your child's bulky car seat through crowded, security-clogged airports?
- Bottled water critics grumble about the price and the heavy bottles they have to lug home.
- I grabbed the heavy book and lugged it over to a cherrywood table.
- I lugged my heavy bags upstairs and dropped them with a thud in the middle of the room.
- On the cobbles in front of the lower site, he saw James lugging his heavy bag to the coach driver, who shoved it into the coach's large hold.
- And why should people struggle home from supermarkets lugging heavy bottles of water?
- She sighed and lugged the bucket up the steps and into the house.
Synonyms carry, lift, bear, tote, heave, hoist, shoulder, manhandle - 1.1 Be encumbered with.
don't worry about lugging the kids to the salon with you Example sentencesExamples - Worse yet, Japan's banks face daunting competitive pressures while lugging all this negative baggage.
nounləɡləɡ A box or crate used for transporting fruit.
Origin Late Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin: compare with Swedish lugga ‘pull a person's hair’ (from lugg ‘forelock’). nounləɡləɡ 1A projection on an object by which it may be carried or fixed in place. mount the fitting directly to the lugs at each side of the box Example sentencesExamples - The forearm is shipped from the factory without being fitted to the forearm lug.
- Remington's has a pair of lugs on either side of the bottom barrel that mate with corresponding cuts in the frame.
- When hitting the frames together strike the aluminium not the plastic lug.
- Each fan is securely held in place by a plastic frame that includes lugs to fit in the fan mounting holes, and opposing clips to hold the fan in place.
- The stock attaches to a lug at the bottom rear of the grip frame.
- He has employed a clip which attaches to all three lugs on each side.
- A traverse gearbox unit is pivoted on mounting lugs attached to the back of the saddle.
- Locking lug recesses are integral, with the barrel and the three bolt lugs lock directly into the barrel.
- In attaching the units, each one was floated to its proper position and two lugs were inserted in their sockets in the hull.
- The distinctive cushion-shaped case has thin wire lugs soldered onto it, with a leather strap that's long enough to be worn over a wetsuit.
- Basically, the receiver carries two massive ‘C’ shaped lugs that engage similar shaped seats in the sides of the block.
- Gently hooking the single clip to a lug on one side of the socket, I then slowly dropped the Volcano into place and used a flathead screwdriver to fasten the clip to the other lug.
- The use of pre-set anchor lugs in the subbase to prevent long-term slab movements on the steep grade prevented concrete trucks from backing down the grade to deliver concrete.
- On the Tiber side, however, Piranesi has had to adjust the placement of the upper side of the lug to make it fit as tightly against the Tiber bank as the main corner of the compound.
- The small contact area and the fair amount of force needed to secure the clip into place, made pushing it down onto the lugs quite hard.
2North American informal An uncouth, aggressive man. a hood who, despite his fancy clothes, remains a lug Example sentencesExamples - Maybe that big lug might have been a good choice to come along.
- Am I now expected to going back to rooting for this selfish lug?
- She is far from immune to the lovable Raymond, but she really carries a torch for his big lug of a brother.
- Now it's referring to the same big lug who met his fate thanks to David's slingshot.
- I don't know what it was about him- maybe it was the image of this poor big lug standing in the middle of a Texas highway watching everything he had worked for vanish into the distance.
- Like a big, goofy lug, Jerry gave the biggest smile ever, and his heart began to flutter with anxiety.
- In fact, one in five astronauts is a nice-but-dopey lug who yearns to see them Dodgers in the Brooklyn pinstripes again.
- Lewis needed two navigators, two watch captains, and two more primary helmsmen, plus some big, strong lugs to grind the deck winches, and versatile guys who could handle the bow and the mast.
- They think it's time someone taught a lesson to George, a genuinely irritating lug who, like the rest of the characters, has more going on inside than is immediately apparent.
- You silly lug, I thought you were only stupid about law, not everything!
- And how come only those two and that lug have seen her?
3usually lugsScottish informal A person's ear. Example sentencesExamples - His latest strategy - which he's toyed with before but is introducing in force this year - targets the lugs of youth, which he believes can be attuned to classical music once prised from more strident stimulations.
Origin Late 15th century (denoting the ear flap of a hat): probably of Scandinavian origin: compare with Swedish lugg ‘forelock, nap of cloth’. lug (sense 3 of the noun) is perhaps from the 19th-century term denoting the lowest grade of tobacco. nounləɡləɡ short for lugworm Example sentencesExamples - The best baits are mackerel and squid strips cut about three to four inches long by about half an inch wide - or maybe king ragworm or lug.
- The bulk of cod fishing is done with worm baits, usually lugworm due to the copious amounts of blood juice the lug holds, but also ragworm.
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