beer keg
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3.0
- noun
- /bɪr kɛg/
:
barril de cerveza
- He carefully transported the full beer keg to the festival where it would be tapped.
Examples
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Dev, when you're finished there, go over and help Drago with the beer kegs.
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They're saying he intends to build the largest beer keg in the world!
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We take them to the loading dock and put them in beer kegs.
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Beer kegs litter the roadway.
Fiction book (1993) -
Empty beer kegs are used as chairs, and textbooks lie scattered about.
Fiction book (1995) -
It means that if you're strong, that is, let's say you have a good deadlift, that's going to help you carry beer kegs to the second floor.
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We took the empty beer keg back to the brewery for recycling.
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At the party, they served the drinks straight from the beer keg in the backyard.
Synonyms
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1.0
A large round container made of wood or metal that holds liquids such as wine and oil
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2.0
A small barrel for storing and serving beer
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2.7
A large round container that holds beer for keeping or moving
A large wooden barrel used for storing wine or other liquids
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'beer' (the beverage) + 'keg' (a small barrel); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a barrel containing beer. Noun+noun constructions of this type are common in English and cross-linguistically (e.g., 'barril de cerveza', 'fût de bière'), so the relation is predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Beer keg comes from a simple image: a keg is a wooden or metal barrel and beer is the drink inside, so picture opening or tapping a heavy barrel and beer pouring out. That's why beer keg means 'to store or serve beer'.