tug
IPA: tˈʌg
noun
- A sudden powerful pull.
- (nautical) A tugboat.
- (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
- A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
- A dog toy consisting of a rope, often with a knot in it.
- (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
- (slang) An act of male masturbation.
verb
- (transitive) To pull or drag with great effort.
- (transitive) To pull hard repeatedly.
- (transitive) To tow by tugboat.
- (slang, transitive, intransitive) To masturbate.
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Examples of "tug" in Sentences
- The people found the tug boat.
- The boat owner capsized the tug.
- The specifics of the tug are as follows.
- Part of the town is on the Tug Hill Plateau.
- Clearly the tug of war is lurching in his direction.
- By the end she was the sole remnant of the tug fleet.
- The tug is usually the most exciting part of the game.
- It is what you call a tug-of-war - you against Mansur.
- The gravitational tug is not relevant in asteroid kinematics.
- Tom tugs at the lasso, dragging the bull into a large bundle of hay.
- Heer yoo go, mary. *streeetttch tug tug tug* there – taht shud halp.
- A tug is in the foreground and the Saruwaged Range is in the distance.
- I assume that this 'tug' is the same feeling that keeps others coming back time and again.
- *Scoopitee scoop scoop scoop* *pat pat pat* *streeeeeetch tug tug tug* just a liddle bit o’duktaype.
- I love being at home -- but unfortunately, I do feel the tug from the world that maybe I am missing out in life.
- The guy was into his second six-pack and smiling goofily like he'd just gotten a half-price rub-n-tug from a Thai massage parlor.
- _Jig, jig, tug, tug_ at the top of my rod, and I looked down to see that the float was out of sight and the rod nearly touching the water.
- The two huge Washington bureaucracies are engaged in a long-term tug-of-war over the food safety legislation making its way through Congress.