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View definitions for tug

tug

noun as in quick pull

verb as in pull quickly

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"They don't remember a world where Simply doesn’t exist, and it’s the juice they’ve seen in the fridge throughout their lives, so it has a particular tug on their heartstrings."

From Salon

Dugoni, 38, said he began imagining “device-free” environments where people could get away from the “tug and pull of modern life.”

Martin lacks sufficient hair to have literally tugged his forelock in Trump’s presence, but his position as supplicant — or itinerant entertainer, an Irish tradition if ever there was one — was obvious to all.

From Salon

In the rarely seen “Man at His Bath,” the tug assumes a culturally determined tension around male nudity.

Later, the family settled near 77th Street and Broadway, where he first felt the tug of gang life.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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