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jugs 1 of 2

noun

plural of jug
1
as in jails
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody some no-good fellow who had spent most of his life in and out of the county jug

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2
as in bottles
a handled container for holding and pouring liquids that usually has a lip or a spout put a jug of milk on the table

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jugs

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verb

present tense third-person singular of jug
as in interns
to put in or as if in prison the luckless crooks got jugged before they knew what hit them

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Recent Examples of jugs
Noun
Water bottles, milk jugs, and other plastic containers are shredded into pieces that look something like confetti. — Brian Unger, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026 Distilled water can be purchased in gallon jugs, which should last you quite a while to keep one Venus flytrap hydrated. — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Aug. 2026 Milagros Pica Quiñones’ small concrete home is an untamed menagerie of bottles, paint buckets, bleach and laundry detergent jugs. — Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026 In 2017, internet trolls disrupted an anti-racist art installation with neo-Nazi chants and messily downed jugs of milk to accentuate their white identity. — Hilary Smith, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026 There will be a seminar with DawgNation’s Kaylee Mansell, take-home goodies and several activities, including a station for making spirit jugs. — Caitlyn Stroh-Page, AJC.com, 23 Aug. 2026 Officials on the island have deployed portable water tankers to communities, allowing residents to fill up containers and plastic jugs while their service is cut off. — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026 Collectors can discover vintage ceramic jugs, mugs and teapots. — Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 The traditional category, in which the San Jose nonprofit group competed, featured the use of different props such as tables, benches and wine jugs to combine technical skill with storytelling. — Yu Wang, Mercury News, 26 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jugs
  1. jails
  2. bottles
  3. imprisons
  4. prisons
  5. pitchers
  6. penitentiaries
  7. cups
  8. coolers
Noun
  • And as the cops try to arrest them, only to realize their own jails aren’t accessible, the film expresses perfectly how the government trips over its own feet while resisting inevitable change.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Across California, individuals experiencing psychiatric emergencies are repeatedly funneled into de facto psychiatric facilities like local jails instead of receiving timely clinical care.
    — Kerry Martin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of jails
Noun
  • Simons argued in the motion that a Snapchat photo that allegedly showed Sadowski holding two shooter bottles of liquor in his vehicle was improperly submitted and led to prejudicial evidence.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Later, detectives produced three male DNA profiles from evidence collected at the scene, including some pulled from beer bottles and cigarette butts, but none were ever matched to anyone until recently.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of bottles
Verb
  • The King imprisons the miller’s daughter in a room and orders her to prove her magical ability under pain of death.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
  • County leaders vowed to legally oppose the facility, pointing to county zoning laws that do not allow for detention centers or any type of facility that holds or imprisons people on county land.
    — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
Definition of imprisons
Noun
  • In August, the Michigan House passed a legislative plan aimed at safety and transparency in the state's prisons following multiple inmate deaths.
    — Nicholas Lentz, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Look beyond the police, and the whole criminal justice system – prisons, the courts and probation service – is poorly run, and often in crisis.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of prisons
Noun
  • The family brunch also comes with pitchers of sangria or mimosas.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Sep. 2026
  • A lot of pitchers, a lot of position players here, players that can play all over the field.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of pitchers
Noun
  • Hodge says he was abused in multiple federal penitentiaries, but was frequently blocked from filing complaints about it.
    — Christie Thompson, NPR, 13 July 2026
  • This includes providing the Colombian military more leeway in the field, signing a new security agreement with Washington and building 10 mega-prisons that mimic Bukele’s network of penitentiaries in El Salvador.
    — Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
Definition of penitentiaries
Noun
  • The recipe yields 4 cups of salty, spicy nuts that can be stored in an airtight container for up to a week.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2026
  • With no batteries required, this scale has an 11-pound capacity that can hold up to 5 cups at a time.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of cups
Noun
  • Many are in poor shape, with thin, uninsulated walls, leaky windows, old or broken swamp coolers and electrical systems that can't always handle air conditioners.
    — Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Its rugged silicone exterior is IP67-rated to resist water, dust, and drops, while the flexible utility strap easily clips onto backpacks, handlebars, or coolers.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of coolers

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“Jugs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jugs. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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