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keg
[ keg ]
noun
- a small cask or barrel, usually holding from 5 to 10 gallons (19 to 38 liters).
- a unit of weight, equal to 100 pounds (45 kilograms), used for nails.
- Also kegger. a keg party; beer bust.
keg
/ kɛɡ /
noun
- a small barrel with a capacity of between five and ten gallons
- an aluminium container in which beer is transported and stored
- Also calledkeg beer beer kept in a keg: it is infused with gas and served under pressure
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Example Sentences
In the season finale, thanks to Maarva and Andor’s connections to the rebellion, her funeral becomes a powder keg for the Republic.
A football tailgate is as sacred as it is singular, perhaps the only moment of the day where camaraderie is prioritized over competition20 and a keg stand can draw political support.
She did once do a keg stand on camera while people yelled, “Suck it!”
Army Lieutenant Robert Temple and two others meanwhile rowed to Governors Island and found 100-pound kegs of powder.
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They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.
For the senior senator from Louisiana, the lasting image from her fourth Senate campaign will be a keg stand.
Not her own—but Landrieu did provide an assist to a man doing a keg stand at Louisiana State University.
We played keg parties, but everyone was there for the free beer, not for us.
Logic is a rare bird in these parts and Crimea is nothing short of a powder keg.
If old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.
A small keg, or breaker, was thrown overboard and picked up, with a bag of fifteen or twenty pounds of hardtack.
More than that, he always washed before eating, even if he had to divide the last water in the keg.
Gossoon,' he says, 'put a keg iv sherry wine on th' ice,' he says.
So Ralph fell to on the bag of biscuit and the keg of water, while Duff bathed and bound up his leg as best he could.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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