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Word entry · 3 letters

tug

Best crossword clue

"Pull hard"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /tʌɡ/Part of speech noun, verbSorted gtuStarts with TEnds with G2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a sudden abrupt pull

Word origin

From Middle English tuggen, toggen, from Old English togian (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-West Germanic *togōn, from Proto-Germanic *tugōną (“to draw, tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”).

Used in a sentence

  • The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.
  • He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.
  • At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Pull hard3 letters
02Sharp pull3 letters

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