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  • 121low — (L) A driving gear ratio in automatic transmissions for climbing hills (to prevent lugging or for going down steep hills so that it acts as a compression brake. also See bull low four wheel drive low …

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  • 122lug — Ⅰ. lug [1] ► VERB (lugged, lugging) ▪ carry or drag with great effort. ► NOUN ▪ a box for transporting fruit. ORIGIN probably Scandinavian. Ⅱ. lug …

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  • 123chug-a-lug — ☆ chug a lug [chug′ə lug΄ ] vt., vi. chug a lugged, chug a lugging [echoic] Slang to drink in continuous gulps or in a single, long gulp; swill …

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  • 124Lug — 1. v. & n. v. (lugged, lugging) 1 tr. a drag or tug (a heavy object) with effort or violence. b (usu. foll. by round, about) carry (something heavy) around with one. 2 tr. (usu. foll. by in, into) introduce (a subject etc.) irrelevantly. 3 tr.… …

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  • 125lug — 1. v. & n. v. (lugged, lugging) 1 tr. a drag or tug (a heavy object) with effort or violence. b (usu. foll. by round, about) carry (something heavy) around with one. 2 tr. (usu. foll. by in, into) introduce (a subject etc.) irrelevantly. 3 tr.… …

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  • 126sawed-off — adjective 1. well below average height • Syn: ↑pint size, ↑pint sized, ↑runty, ↑sawn off • Similar to: ↑short, ↑little • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …

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  • 127chug-a-lug — /chug euh lug /, v., chug a lugged, chug a lugging, adv. Slang. v.t. 1. to drink (a container of beverage) in one continuous draught. v.i. 2. to drink a beverage in one continuous draught. adv. 3. in one continuous draught: drinking their soft… …

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  • 128course|pack — «KRS PAK, KOHRS », noun. a collection of readings from a variety of sources selected for a specific academic course and sold in place of a principal textbook: »Somewhere between lugging thick tomes to class and using a notebook computer…a new era …

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