as in barrel
an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages a keg of beer

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Recent Examples of keg With the Patriots, there were stories of Carroll canceling practice and packing the players onto buses with kegs on their way to bonding events. Jeff Howe, New York Times, 31 July 2025 Instead of letting that dead time go to waste, workers learned to start setting up the next packaging run, lining up kegs, and getting cans ready for the feed line. Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 29 July 2025 There is also no glass, kegs or Styrofoam coolers allowed. Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025 The event includes a beer, then beer pong, a second beer, then cornhole, a third beer, then flip cup, a keg race, then the diabolical Run, Forrest, Run race around the block — two times! Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for keg
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Noun
  • The bourbon is produced in Kentucky as a small–batch expression blending around 10–15 barrels per batch.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Orange barrels and flags across the Treasure Valley have had a lot of motorists seeing red the past couple of years.
    Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Stranahan’s ages its whiskey that way, at least before cask finishing a portion of it, and bigger brands like Jim Beam’s Clermont Steep, Bulleit, and Jack Daniel’s all do as well (the latter also gets a lengthy secondary maturation in sherry casks).
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This rye whiskey is crafted from a limited batch of only 20 barrels, the most limited in the series so far, and bottled at cask strength.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Gamers will appreciate the efficient airflow design with the new Cryo-Chamber that helps pull cool air into the system through 2 fans, 3 copper heat pipes, and 4 exhaust vents.
    Sherrie Nachman, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • On the platform, around the clock, the racket of metal bore pipes and machinery, the drilling grime and the speckled mud mingled with the quieter, cleaner work of scientists in trailers converted to pristine labs and processing posts.
    Rodrique Ngowi, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Keg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/keg. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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