How to pronounce“tug”in English
verbhim a half dozen times to slow down, back up, repeat himself and maybe use fewer polysyllabic words. What exactly was il problema? He pointed to my gym shorts, then grabbed my arm and
tugged me to a sign I hadn't noticed before. It explained that it was vietato to wear shorts that didn't adhere tightly to your legs.
"My shorts didn't and were thus, vietato. Trust me on this, the shorts I was wearing were as unremarkable and unobjectionable as athletic shorts could be. They were precisely
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Definitions of “tug”
To pull or drag with great effort.
“The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.”
To pull hard repeatedly.
“He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.”
A sudden powerful pull.
“At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.”
A tugboat.
“Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.”
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