jug

plural jugs

1. countableuncountableA serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.
2. countableuncountableThe amount that a jug can hold.
3. countableslanguncountableJail.

   'I'm telling you trade secrets,' the father said, 'So don't you go talking about this to anyone else. You don't want me put in jug do you?'

   1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda

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   I was 'counsel for the defence', or 'prisoner's friend'. My chap had deserted for nearly two years and spent six months in a civvy jug. With papers under my arm and serious countenance I visited him in his cell day after day, […]

   1998, John Gunn, Dear Descendants: Recollections for a Gunn Family History 1945-1957, page 19

4. countablein pluralslanguncountablevulgarA woman's breasts.

   With her left hand on her right jug, she put her mouth to her other tit.

   2010, Ben Niemand, The Sexperts, →ISBN

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   I was sucking my mom's left jug when I heard JD say, "Now we will experience the burden of the past."

   1985, Epoch, Volumes 24-25

   I blew into her ear, and trailed a finger idly down her shoulder until I reached her left jug, the better of a nearly perfect pair.

   2010, David Mason, Devil's food

5. AustraliaNew ZealandcountableuncountableAn upright electric kettle.
6. countablein pluraluncountableCB radio slangA kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.

   […] as shown in the August 2000 issue, using a pair of my favorite jugs, 807s.

   2001, 73 Amateur Radio Today, numbers 482-493, page 8

7. UScountableslanguncountableThe P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft.
8. countableuncountableclimbingA hold large enough for both hands
9. UKcountableinformaluncountableA traditional dimpled glass with a handle, for serving a pint of beer.

   Synonyms: handle

present singular third person jugs · participle present jugging · participle past jugged · past jugged

1. transitiveTo stew in an earthenware jug etc.

   jugged hare

2. slangtransitiveTo put into jail.
3. intransitiveTo utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

   Down in the orchard a nightingale jug-jugged, as if he, too, had dropped into a soft billet.

   1916, R. Austin Freeman, chapter 8, in The Exploits of Danby Croker

4. intransitiveTo nestle or collect together in a covey.

plural jugs

1. A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.

   2014, Alan Kenworthy, Jugs: Buying, Caring For, Grooming, Health, Training and Understanding Your Jug Dog or Puppy, Feel Happy Limited

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   When the dog’s owners returned with their shopping, I asked what the little dog was. She was a Jug, a Jack Russell-Pug cross. We found out lots about this crossbreed, thought long and hard, and decided a Jug and a Spitz could work really well together.

   2013, Lost & Found: True tales of love and rescue from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, Penguin Group

   2015, George Hoppendale, Jugs: Jug Dog Complete Owners Manual - Jug book for care, costs, feeding, grooming, health and training, Internet Marketing Business

   Stanley ¶ Jug (Jack Russell/Pug cross); 18 months old; keeps fit chasing his ball or frisbee, but would rather be laid on his back, snoring

   2018, Cheryl Murphy, Dogs just wanna have FUN!, Veloce Publishing, page 110

plural jugs · alternative JUG

1. UScountableuncountableJesuit schoolsDetention (after-school student punishment).

   “Take a week’s Jug,” he said, “and keep your nose clean.”

   1970, Kenneth H. Brown, The Narrows, New York City: The Deal Press, via Google Books

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   I had another role that earned me almost no appreciation at all: I served as the master after classes in the JUG room, where students appeared when they received detention.

   2017 June 12, Stephen, N., S.J. Katsouros, Come To Believe: How the Jesuits are Reinventing Education (Again), Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 27

   In days gone by jugs included the memorization of Shakespeare or the writing out of some well-known document like the Constitution.

   2017 September 28, Tom Healey, “Jug 'Em with a Jugum”, in Lessons from Loyola Hall, Cleveland: Saint Ignatius High School, retrieved 24 Nov 2021

   A common infraction that landed pupils in jug was getting caught using a stairwell that was reserved for use by faculty and other adults.

   2018 October 16, Ted Slowik, “Slowik: Reunion reveals changes to high school, people and places in 35 years”, in Chicago Tribune, retrieved 24 Nov 2021

   In addition to JUGs and disciplinary lectures, spats and hacks, paddles used to smack misbehaving students, often went with receiving a JUG.

   2020 March 8, Steele Clevenger, “A Look Back at JUGs”, in The Jesuit Chronicle, Beaverton, Oregon: Jesuit High School, retrieved 24 Nov 2021

present singular third person jugs · participle present jugging · participle past jugged · past jugged · alternative JUG

1. UStransitiveJesuit schoolsTo issue a detention (to a student).

   The first time I met Ben was in after-school detention. He’d been jugged for faking his mom’s signature, and I was serving for clapping erasers in the hallway.

   2009, Anthony Varallo, This Day in History, Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 6

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   Students would say they “got JUGged,” meaning they’d been disciplined by a teacher. Most of the time punishment entailed memorizing a passage of a text or an obscure snatch of poetry.

   2007 June 19, Julia Flynn Siler, The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty, New York City: Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 60

present singular third person jugs · participle present jugging · participle past jugged · past jugged · alternative jugg

1. slangTo hustle or make money, usually aggressively.
2. slangTo acquire or obtain through force; snatch, steal; to rob, especially in reference to jugging (which see).

   I just jugged a band director; now I got a brand new saxophone.