jug

noun

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   The amount that a jug can hold.

3. 3

   slangJail.

   'I'm telling you trade secrets,' the father said, 'So don't you go talking about this to anyone else. You don't want me put in jug do you?'

   I was 'counsel for the defence', or 'prisoner's friend'. My chap had deserted for nearly two years and spent six months in a civvy jug. With papers under my arm and serious countenance I visited him in his cell day after day, […]

4. 4

   slangA woman's breasts.

   I was sucking my mom's left jug when I heard JD say, "Now we will experience the burden of the past."

   With her left hand on her right jug, she put her mouth to her other tit.

   I blew into her ear, and trailed a finger idly down her shoulder until I reached her left jug, the better of a nearly perfect pair.

5. 5

   An upright electric kettle.

6. 6

   A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.

   […] as shown in the August 2000 issue, using a pair of my favorite jugs, 807s.

7. 7

   slangThe P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft.

8. 8

   A hold large enough for both hands

9. 9

   informalA traditional dimpled glass with a handle, for serving a pint of beer.

verb

1. 1

   To stew in an earthenware jug etc.

   jugged hare

2. 2

   slangTo put into jail.

3. 3

   To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

   Down in the orchard a nightingale jug-jugged, as if he, too, had dropped into a soft billet.

4. 4

   To nestle or collect together in a covey.

noun

1. 1

   A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.

   When the dog’s owners returned with their shopping, I asked what the little dog was. She was a Jug, a Jack Russell-Pug cross. We found out lots about this crossbreed, thought long and hard, and decided a Jug and a Spitz could work really well together.

   2014, Alan Kenworthy, Jugs: Buying, Caring For, Grooming, Health, Training and Understanding Your Jug Dog or Puppy, Feel Happy Limited

   2015, George Hoppendale, Jugs: Jug Dog Complete Owners Manual - Jug book for care, costs, feeding, grooming, health and training, Internet Marketing Business

   Stanley ¶ Jug (Jack Russell/Pug cross); 18 months old; keeps fit chasing his ball or frisbee, but would rather be laid on his back, snoring

noun

1. 1

   Detention (after-school student punishment).

   “Take a week’s Jug,” he said, “and keep your nose clean.”

   I had another role that earned me almost no appreciation at all: I served as the master after classes in the JUG room, where students appeared when they received detention.

   In days gone by jugs included the memorization of Shakespeare or the writing out of some well-known document like the Constitution.

   A common infraction that landed pupils in jug was getting caught using a stairwell that was reserved for use by faculty and other adults.

verb

1. 1

   To issue a detention (to a student).

   Students would say they “got JUGged,” meaning they’d been disciplined by a teacher. Most of the time punishment entailed memorizing a passage of a text or an obscure snatch of poetry.

   The first time I met Ben was in after-school detention. He’d been jugged for faking his mom’s signature, and I was serving for clapping erasers in the hallway.

verb

1. 1

   slangTo hustle or make money, usually aggressively.

2. 2

   slangTo acquire or obtain through force; snatch, steal; to rob, especially in reference to jugging (which see).

   I just jugged a band director; now I got a brand new saxophone.

Forms

plural

jugs

past tense

jugged

past participle

jugged

present participle

jugging

third person singular

jugs