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What does tug mean? Is tug a Scrabble word?

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Is tug a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word tug is a Scrabble US word. The word tug is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

T1U1G2

Is tug a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word tug is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

T1U1G2

Is tug a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word tug is a Words With Friends word. The word tug is worth 6 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

T1U2G3

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Valid words made from Tug

You can make 5 words from 'tug' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

3 letters words from 'tug'

GUT 4TUG 4

2 letters words from 'tug'

GU 3UG 3
UT 2 

All 3 letters words made out of tug

tug utg tgu gtu ugt gut

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word tug. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in tug.

Definitions and meaning of tug

tug

Etymology

From Middle English tuggen, toggen, from Old English togian (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *tugōną (“to draw, tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Cognate with Middle Low German togen (“to draw”), Middle High German zogen (“to pull, tear off”), Icelandic toga (“to pull, draw”). Related to tow.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: tŭg, IPA(key): /tʌɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌɡ

Verb

tug (third-person singular simple present tugs, present participle tugging, simple past and past participle tugged)

  1. (transitive) to pull or drag with great effort
    The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.
  2. (transitive) to pull hard repeatedly
    He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.
  3. (transitive) to tow by tugboat

Derived terms

  • tug down
  • tug up

Translations

Noun

tug (plural tugs)

  1. A sudden powerful pull.
    • At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
  2. (nautical) A tugboat.
  3. (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
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  4. A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
  5. (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
  6. (slang) An act of masturbation.
    He had a quick tug to calm himself down before his date.

Derived terms

  • tug of war

Translations

Anagrams

  • GUT, Gut, UTG, gut

Elfdalian

Noun

tug n

  1. train

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Icelandic

Noun

tug

  1. inflection of tugur:
    1. indefinite accusative singular
    2. indefinite dative singular

Scottish Gaelic

Verb

tug

  1. past tense of thoir

Usage notes

  • This is the dependent form, the basic form being thug.

Source: wiktionary.org
  • TUFTING, the act of decorating with tufts.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)