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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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3-letter words (2 found)

GUT,TUG,

2-letter words (3 found)

GU,UG,UT,

You can make 5 words from tug according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tug

tug

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English tuggen, toggen, from Old English togian (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-West Germanic *togōn, 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.

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.
  2. (transitive) To pull hard repeatedly.
  3. (transitive) To tow by tugboat.
  4. (slang, ambitransitive) To masturbate.
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

tug (plural tugs)

  1. A sudden powerful pull.
  2. (nautical) A tugboat.
  3. (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
  4. A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
  5. A dog toy consisting of a rope, often with a knot in it.
  6. (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
  7. (slang) An act of male masturbation.
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Etymology 2

Related to toga.

Noun

tug (plural tugs)

  1. (UK, slang) A foundationer or colleger at Eton.

Anagrams

  • GUT, Gut, UTG, gut

Elfdalian

Noun

tug n

  1. train

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Ibanag

Noun

tug

  1. (anatomy) knee

Icelandic

Noun

tug

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

Scottish Gaelic

Verb

tug

  1. past of thoir

Usage notes

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

White Hmong

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tu˧˩̤/

Classifier

tug

  1. alternative form of tus (“classifier for long objects (such as rods or sticks) and animals or beings”)

Source: wiktionary.org