Noun some no-good fellow who had spent most of his life in and out of the county jug put a jug of milk on the table Verb the luckless crooks got jugged before they knew what hit them
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Once in the British North American colonies, slaveholders doled out weekly rations of a couple pounds of dried, pickled, salted, or smoked pork along with a few pounds of cornmeal and a jug of molasses to the enslaved. Adrian Miller, Bon Appétit, 23 Aug. 2022 His name on the claret jug includes his score of 268, the best ever on the Old Course. Doug Ferguson, Chron, 18 July 2022 His name on the claret jug includes his score of 268, the best ever on the Old Course. Doug Ferguson, Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2022 Smith made his last birdie and the engraver went to work on the claret jug, a prize first awarded to the 1873 champion at St. Andrews. Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2022 Describing all these features makes the jug and faucet sound like complicated products. Wes Siler, Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2022 Across the room, pinned to the wall, was an enlarged photographic image of an African American woman in a floral dress, sitting at a table on which there was a jug with a grotesque human face.The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022 Until recently, Ester, 12, would walk two miles from her home in Kiziba to the shore of Lake Kivu and back carrying a heavy plastic jug full of untreated lake water, her family's daily household supply. Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 1 June 2022 The show, which opens in Boston next year, includes a jug by Drake in the MFA’s collection and features a catalog essay coauthored by Bramwell and Lasser. Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
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No More Deaths published a report that documented the frequent destruction of the water jugs the group leaves throughout the southern desert for passing migrants. John Moore/getty Images, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2019 See More
➡ see also pitcherADJECTIVE | VERB + JUG | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤earthenware, glass, plastic陶壺;玻璃壺;塑料壺▸➤cream, milk, water, wine奶油壺;牛奶壺;廣口水壺;酒壺➤gallon, half-gallon, three-litre/three-liter, etc. * 1 加侖、半加侖、3 升等的壺▸➤measuring (BrE) 量壺VERB + JUG➤fill, fill up, pour sth into裝滿壺;把⋯倒進壺◇I filled up my water jug.我把水壺灌滿了。◇He filled a jug with juice. (especially BrE) 他把壺裏倒滿了果汁。➤pour, tip把壺傾斜◇She poured a jug of water over his head.她把一壺水倒在了他的頭上。➤empty, pour sth from, pour sth out of把壺倒空;從壺裏倒出⋯PREPOSITION➤jug of一壺⋯◇a jug of milk一罐牛奶