ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Jug

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /d͡ʒʌɡ/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Jug is a noun meaning The amount that a jug can hold.

Meaning

The amount that a jug can hold.

More Meanings

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) An upright electric kettle.
  2. (CB radio slang, chiefly in the plural) A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.
  3. (US, slang) The P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft.
  4. (climbing) A hold large enough for both hands
  5. A 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.
  6. (slang) Jail.
  7. (vulgar, slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breasts.

Example Sentences

With her left hand on her right jug, she put her mouth to her other tit.
[…] as shown in the August 2000 issue, using a pair of my favorite jugs, 807s.
Down in the orchard a nightingale jug-jugged, as if he, too, had dropped into a soft billet.
I was sucking my mom's left jug when I heard JD say, "Now we will experience the burden of the past."

Word Forms

Synonyms for jug

Depending on context, synonyms include handle, gaol, incarcerate, immure, lag, remand.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jugful, immure, imprison, incarcerate, gaol, jail.

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