Victoria Coren Mitchell

I remember I had a copy of 'David Copperfield' that I lugged around at primary school. I started reading it when I was seven, and I was eight when I finished it. I read an awful lot as a little girl and played games and imagined lots of things.

English Writer

Hayley Williams

I think it's important for bands to rough it. Whether you're in a van or a bus, it's still tough. You still have to stand in a two hour catering line with flies everywhere in the heat, and you still have to lug your gear.

American Musician

Tyler Joseph

There are times when we look back and think, 'Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downstairs to a basement of some venue to play for five people?' We do a lot of reminiscing. It helps us keep our heads on straight.

Kara Swisher

My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.

American Journalist

Emily Deschanel

My mom breastfed me for more than a year, and I can't imagine doing it any other way. It's cheap and much better for the environment, and you don't have to lug all that stuff around.

American Actress

Raveena Tandon

A friend of mine created an email ID for me, and I was completely hooked soon after. I would mail friends constantly and lug my laptop everywhere just to listen to some music.

Indian Actress

Josh Groban

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

George Harrison

It was all part of being a Beatle, really: just getting lugged around and thrust into rooms full of press men taking pictures and asking questions.

British Musician

Lewis Hine

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

American Photographer

Sophie Hannah

British Poet

Use 'lug' when describing carrying something heavy or cumbersome.

Physical Effort

'Lug' implies a struggle due to weight or size.

Struggle Implied

Avoid using 'lug' for people; it’s for objects only.

Not for People

The mechanical 'lug' is a technical term used in engineering.

Technical Context

'Lug' in mechanics refers to a specific component feature for attachment.

Specific Object Feature

Knowing about 'lug' helps in discussing repairs or assembly tasks.

Essential for Repairs

When calling someone a 'lug', it’s a light-hearted insult for clumsiness.

Mild Insult

This meaning of 'lug' is not formal and mostly used in casual speech.

Colloquial Use

'Lug' as an ear is specific to certain English dialects, like in Northern England.

Local Dialect

'Lug' can refer to the ear or earlobe in certain regional contexts.

Anatomical Term

 your most simple job to do Tuffy and I can't believe our eyes we go out there and the skid-steer is up on two wheels whether or not Tuffy should have had John driving this I don't know right now it doesn't look like you're okay right oh yeah you think we damaged the lugs you didn't help him don't walk on them we don't want your footprints all over

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 provided you also wanted to lug around extra water to refuel and didn’t mind waiting 30 minutes for your engine to heat up. Alternatively, you could buy a car powered by gasoline. However, the internal combustion engines in these models required dangerous hand-cranking to start

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 Actually, she had never been to school, not to a lick, one day. Her parents, again, said, "Why should we spend the money on her? She's going to spend most of her life lugging water back and forth." Well, it just so happens, at that time, there was a group in Connecticut

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 Operators had to lug a conspicuous transmitter through enemy territory, and the clandestine agency couldn’t protect her if she was caught. Noor accepted her assignment immediately. While she was determined to take her pacifist principles as far as possible,

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 I no longer required the sticks. I wasn't allowed to have these sticks. I had to basically look at this particular drum, see how it was made, what these little lugs did, what the snares did. Turned it upside down, experimented with the shell.

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 a perfect landing next he looks at hand movements a good tire changer should be able to remove the tire without setting the airgun down which he easily does and most importantly tiny as soon as the last lug nut is tight he needs to leap

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 Our players are so dedicated, that they will actually lug these things onto their flights as carry-ons. The community is also absurdly diverse. This is a photo of Apex, an annual tournament held in New Jersey.

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 in the world here's part of the problem in much of the world gathering water is done the old-fashioned way by walking to a water source and literally lugging a day's worth back home but there's no

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 You know you can't keep letting it get you down, you can't keep letting it get you down -- this too shall pass If there ain't all that much to lug around,

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 not one but two casualties lugging back a colossal weight of 23 stone each the casualties are in position the contestants are on their marks get set

Lug

To carry or drag something with difficulty.

Often appears as...

A metal projection on an object which is used to attach it to something else.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

A stupid or clumsy person.

Usage tips

The ear or earlobe.

Usage tips

Physical Effort

Struggle Implied

Not for People

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