lug
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- noun
- /lʌg/
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orejeta
- Please hand me the lug that holds the engine cover in place.
- lug bolt
I'm going to do this all with wire lugs, with wire nuts.
- I'm going to do this all with wire lugs, with wire nuts.
- I'm sorry because my first nerddom was a six lug and I didn't know nothing about lugs.
- I've got a finger tight now and I'm going to go back around to each lug in my star pattern.
- The guy I purchased it from these sets of wheels, these lug nuts, he wanted to keep the lug nuts, the lug nuts.
- Yeah, we're like, bro, we need to go to shop WSS real quick and we need to go grab us some lugs.
Examples
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The man in the workshirt was twisting a wrench around a lug in the engine.
Fiction book (1997) -
Reaching for a wrench, he knocked over a whole tray of lug nuts.
Fiction book (1999) -
I gotta put in a couple of lug nuts.
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Carter, where are the other lug nuts?
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So he stopped, and all the lug nuts were loose.
Academic text (2005) -
It's a different lug configuration, genius.
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The lug nuts are looking a little corroded.
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Hey, you better stop and tighten your lug nuts!
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Almost like you tighten the lugs on a car wheel or how you build a bicycle wheel.
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Those are chrome-plated lugs.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lug meaning a projecting part likely comes from an old word for an 'ear' or small handle, something that 'sticks out' you can grab, so a lug on a machine is a little ear-like tab used for lifting or fixing.