Definition of "chug"

chug¹

/t͡ʃʌɡ/

noun
plural chugs
1. A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine.
2. A large gulp of drink.
3. A homemade Cuban boat, built to carry emigrants to the USA, and often abandoned upon arrival.
4. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Native American descent.
verb
third-person singular simple present chugs, present participle chugging, simple past and past participle chugged
1. (intransitive) To make dull explosive sounds.
2. (intransitive) To move or travel whilst making such sounds.
3. (intransitive, by extension) To move or travel at a steady, although not especially fast, pace.
  Quotations
  Before the year was out, the girls were out of school and the foursome's "Tell Him" was chuggin’ up the charts.
  1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 130
  As the escort carriers chug away south, their single 5-inch rear guns are now cleared to open fire as the range closes.
  2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 24:22 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?‎, archived from the original on 3 November 2022
  For thousands of years, human progress was indexed to the ease and speed of our mobility: our capacity to walk on two legs, and then to ride on animals, sail on boats, chug across the land and fly through the air, all to procure for ourselves the food and materials we wanted.
  2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎
4. (transitive, colloquial) To drink a large amount (especially of beer) in a single action/without breathing; to chugalug. Usually chanted at the person who is drinking.

chug²

/t͡ʃʌɡ/

noun
plural chugs
1. A dog that is a cross between a pug and a chihuahua.

chug³

/t͡ʃʌɡ/

verb
third-person singular simple present chugs, present participle chugging, simple past and past participle chugged
1. (transitive, UK slang, derogatory) To solicit charitable donations on the street, particularly in a persistent manner.

Definition of "chug"

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