lug

plural lugs

1. The act of hauling or dragging.

   a hard lug

2. That which is hauled or dragged.

   The pack is a heavy lug.

3. Anything that moves slowly.

   whereof the one is quick of cast, trick, and trim both for pleasure and profit: the other is a lug

   1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole of Shootinge […], London: […] Edouardi Whytchurch, →OCLC

4. automotiveA lug nut.
5. businessA device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
6. A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
7. A large, clumsy, awkward man; a fool.

   Synonyms: big lug

8. UKAn ear or ear lobe.

   While shaving, the poor sod had a fit and cut part of a lug off.

9. A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
10. slangA request for money, as for political purposes.

    They put the lug on him at the courthouse.

11. A lugworm.
12. informalA pull or drag on a cigarette.

    He took another long lug on his cigarette before continuing quietly, 'I've seen too much and it was seriously screwing me up. […]

    2013, Paul Burke, The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife

present singular third person lugs · participle present lugging · participle past lugged · past lugged

1. figurativelysometimestransitiveTo haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.

   Why do you always lug around so many books?

   3 more examples

   They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.

   c. 1700, Jeremy Collier, A Thought

   As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.

   1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves

   Luggage areas need to be within sight, rather than at the end of carriages, despite the inconvenience of lugging cases further into a carriage.

   2021 July 14, Anthony Lambert, “Grand designs on superior interiors”, in RAIL, number 935, page 48

2. transitiveTo run at too slow a speed.

   When driving up a hill, choose a lower gear so you don't lug the engine.

3. transitivenauticalTo carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
4. intransitivehobbiesTo pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.

plural lugs

1. UKdialectalA rod or pole.

   And from the bodies [of pines and oaks] the boughes and loftie lugges they beare.

   1567, George Turberville, Epitome

2. UKarchaicdialectalA measure of length equal to 16+¹⁄₂ feet.

   eight lugs of grownd; / Into the which returning backe, he fell

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11

   Synonyms: rod

3. nauticalA lugsail.
4. harnessThe leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
5. A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
6. A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Lugh.

plural LUGs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of lesbian until graduation.

   If “bi now, gay later” is one side of an offensive, disrespectful coin, the LUG (or “lesbian until graduation”) stereotype is its counterpart.

   2016, Lindsay King-Miller, Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls, Penguin, →ISBN

2. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of Linux user group.