keg
- noun
- /kɛg/
- The local brewery delivered a keg filled with their latest craft beer for the event.
- a keg of beer
- tap a keg
- drink a keg
Just like a keg of orange soda.
- Just like a keg of orange soda.
- I feel like when the frat Bros, like, post up with their kegs and their red Solo cups, it's fine.
- You would just go to to the parking lot and it would be where high school kids could find kegs of beer.
- So one of the guys that was with us, two of the guys that were with us decided it was a novel idea to go try and steal a keg from the bikers.
- So two kegs of good here perhaps, right?
- They had a tailgating party and it looked like what you were describing you were hanging out with earlier on in your life with kegs.
Examples
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Colum found us a keg of real Irish ale on his travels, Scarlett darling.
Fiction book (1991) -
And they had on the bar this keg and it was great tequila.
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One keg of beer For the four of us!
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So you could have it in keg and that keg could be made out of metal or made out of plastic.
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The first team to consume an entire keg wins.
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- I can't wait for our first keg party.
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Rock music came loud from the porch where the keg rested in a tub of cracked ice.
Fiction book (1994) -
I got us a beer pong table, and a keg of Bud Light - is on ice if y'all are all down to clown.
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If you don't haul those kegs away, you're dead where you stand.
Fiction book (1993) -
Warner and some bare-chested fraternity boys were carrying a keg across the quad.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
A large container that holds liquids or gases
A large round container made of wood or metal that holds liquids such as wine and oil
A large barrel used to store drinks like wine or whisky
A large container that holds liquids like water in factories or farms
A large metal or wooden barrel that holds beer to store and serve it
A large round container that holds beer for keeping or moving
A bottle or jug that carries beer to take home
A small barrel of beer used to serve a few people
A very large wooden barrel used to store wine or other liquids
A strong metal container used to hold gunpowder for explosions
Compounds
- Literature
A place or situation that is very tense and could suddenly become violent
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Keg comes from an old Norse word kegg meaning 'small barrel'. Think of the small wooden barrel you see at a party or brewery—that is what a keg originally was, and that is why the word today means that container.