Definition of chug
: a dull explosive sound made by or as if by a laboring engine
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Videos of her baseball chug went viral, with thousands retweeting Petco Park's tweet.
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The Alaska Railroad used to ship some of its 45 passenger cars on barges to Seattle every year, then put them back on tracks for a long chug to the Midwest for repairs and paint jobs.
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Then, those sounds were extinguished by a cement-mixer’s guttural chug.
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Origin and Etymology of chug
imitative
Definition of chug
chugged;
chugging
: to move or go with or as if with chugs
- a locomotive chugging along
- wearily chug through the routine
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chugger
nounFirst Known Use of chug
1848
First Known Use of chug
1958
CHUG Defined for Kids
verb
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ˈchəg
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Definition of chug for Students
chugged;
chugging
: to move with repeated low sounds like that of a steam engine
- The old car chugged along.
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