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🍺 A quick drink 📣 Drink fast! (shout) 🍺 To drink quickly
chugalug

chugalug

9.9
A shout people use to ask others to drink quickly together
  • interjection
  • /ˈtʃʌɡəˌlʌɡ/
  • Slang
translation icon : ¡a beber!
  • When he heard the toast, he playfully shouted, "chugalug!" to encourage his friends.

Examples

  • At the party, everyone yelled, "chugalug!" as they raised their drinks.

  • During the game, they all laughed and chanted, "chugalug!" to get their teammate to drink faster.

  • Clug, clug, clug, chug water first thing in the AM.

  • Just say chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug.

How Encouraging

chugalug
  • Slang
9.9
to drink up
  • Informal
31 1.4
come on
  • Informal
∞ 5.4
skol
9.9

Surface Forms

chugalug main

Morphology

chugalug = chug (semi-transparent) = chug + lug

The element 'chug' clearly suggests rapid drinking, but the reduplicated/echoic element 'lug' is largely decorative and does not add a predictable semantic contribution.

Etymology

Chugalug is a playful shout made from the word chug and the old party phrase chug-a-lug, which copy the sound of fast drinking, so people use it to tell others to 'drink quickly'.