Chug

Quick meaning: Chug is a noun meaning A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine.

Meaning

A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine.

More Meanings

1. A large gulp of drink.
2. A homemade Cuban boat, built to carry emigrants to the USA, and often abandoned upon arrival.
3. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Native American descent.
4. (music, chiefly metal) A palm muted note on a distorted electric guitar.
5. (intransitive) To make dull explosive sounds.
6. (intransitive) To move or travel whilst making such sounds.
7. (intransitive, by extension) To move or travel at a steady, although not especially fast, pace.

Example Sentences

He drank his beer in three chugs.

We were chugging along a back road when the engine cut out.

I kept chugging away on ion, adjusting my path so I'd hit perikron in the B ring with orbital velocity.

Before the year was out, the girls were out of school and the foursome's "Tell Him" was chuggin’ up the charts.

Word Forms

• chugs
• chugging
• chugged

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