Entry Word: drag

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 someone or something boring <that lecture was such a drag that half of the audience fell asleep>

Synonyms bore

Related Words bummer, downer; pill

Near Antonyms gas [slang]

2 a passage cleared for public vehicular travel <the main drag in town> — see way 1
3 something that makes movement or progress more difficult <the drag of overpopulation on raising the living standards of that developing country> — see encumbrance
4 the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time <took a deep drag of the party punch> — see drink 2