lugverb [ T usually + adv/prep ]
uk/lʌɡ/us/lʌɡ/-gg- informalto carry or pull something with effort or difficulty because it is heavy:
I'm exhausted after lugging these suitcases all the way across the city.
I don't want to lug these shopping bags around with me all day.
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Transferring and transporting objects
- bearer
- borne
- bring
- budge
- bus
- call for sb
- drop
- ferry
- freight
- put sb down somewhere
- road haulage
- route
- shuffle
- spirit
- tear 1
- tear sb away
- tote
- transfer
- transport
- transportation
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lugnoun [ C ]
uk/lʌɡ/us/lʌɡ/informallug noun [ C ] (EAR)
UK a lughole (= ear)
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The ear
- -eared
- audiology
- auricular
- auricularis
- cochlea
- concha
- ear
- eardrum
- earlobe
- incus
- lobe
- lughole
- malleus
- middle ear
- petrous
- pop
- stapes
- tympanic
- tympanum
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lug noun [ C ] (PERSON)
US an awkward or stupid man
US a way of talking to a man you like:
Come over here and give me a kiss, you big lug.
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Stupid and silly people
- a right one idiom
- airhead
- asshole
- berk
- birdbrain
- dolt
- doofus
- dork
- duffer
- dullard
- mouth-breather
- muggins
- muppet
- mutt
- need
- silly billy idiom
- simpleton
- stupid
- thicko
- tosser
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