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FromMiddle Englishtuggen,toggen, fromOld Englishtogian(“to draw, drag”), fromProto-West Germanic*togōn, fromProto-Germanic*tugōną(“to draw, tear”), fromProto-Indo-European*dewk-(“to pull”).

Cognate withMiddle Low Germantogen(“to draw”),Middle High Germanzogen(“to pull, tear off”),Icelandictoga(“to pull, draw”). Related totow.

tug (third-person singular simple presenttugs,present participletugging,simple past and past participletugged)

1. (transitive) Topull ordrag withgreateffort.

   The police officerstugged the drunkard out of the pub.

2. (transitive) Topullhardrepeatedly.

   He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, buttugging it made the knot even tighter.

3. (transitive) Totow bytugboat.
4. (slang,ambitransitive) Tomasturbate.

tug (pluraltugs)

1. Asuddenpowerfulpull.
   • 1697,Virgil, “The Eleventh Book of theÆneis”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London:[…]Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:

     At thetug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.

   • 1996 September, Doreen Drury, “The Gay Capital of the World”, inGay Community News, page22:

     Even though the authors note that they have not "exhausted the subject of San Francisco's queer history," the hope is that enough of "us" outside the Bay Area will find something of ourselves represented in the book and will feel thattug of connection to and solidarity with the gay capital's community.

   • 2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, inBBC Sport‎^[1]:

     ButVan Persie slotted home 40 seconds after the break beforeDavid Wheater saw red for atug onTheo Walcott.

2. (nautical) Atugboat.
   • 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, inRailway Magazine, page435:

     Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps totugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.

3. (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveyingtimber and heavy articles.
   • 1910,Rudyard Kipling,Simple Simon:

     Cattiwi came down the steep lane with his five-horse timber-tug

4. Atrace, or drawing strap, of aharness.
5. Adogtoy consisting of arope, often with aknot in it.
6. (mining) Anironhook of ahoistingtub, to which atackle is affixed.
7. (slang) An act of malemasturbation.

   He had a quicktug to calm himself down before his date.

Related totoga.

tug (pluraltugs)

1. (UK,slang) Afoundationer orcolleger atEton.

• GUT,Gut,UTG,gut

tug n

1. train

This noun needs aninflection-table template.

tug

1. (anatomy)knee

tug

1. inflection oftugur:
   1. indefiniteaccusativesingular
   2. indefinitedativesingular

tug

1. past ofthoir

• This is thedependent form, the basic form beingthug.

• IPA^(key):/tu˧˩̤/

tug

1. Alternative form oftus(“classifier forlongobjects (such asrods orsticks) andanimals orbeings”)