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drag out

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drag

  [drag] verb, dragged, drag⋅ging, noun, adjective
Use drag out in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
2. to search with a drag, grapnel, or the like: They dragged the lake for the body of the missing man.
3. to level and smooth (land) with a drag or harrow.
4. to introduce; inject; insert: He drags his honorary degree into every discussion.
5. to protract (something) or pass (time) tediously or painfully (often fol. by out or on): They dragged the discussion out for three hours.
6. to pull (a graphical image) from one place to another on a computer display screen, esp. by using a mouse.
–verb (used without object)
7. to be drawn or hauled along.
8. to trail on the ground.
9. to move heavily or with effort.
10. to proceed or pass with tedious slowness: The parade dragged by endlessly.
11. to feel listless or apathetic; move listlessly or apathetically (often fol. by around): This heat wave has everyone dragging around.
12. to lag behind.
13. to use a drag or grapnel; dredge.
14. to take part in a drag race.
15. to take a puff: to drag on a cigarette.
–noun
16. Nautical.
a. a designed increase of draft toward the stern of a vessel.
b. resistance to the movement of a hull through the water.
c. any of a number of weights dragged cumulatively by a vessel sliding down ways to check its speed.
d. any object dragged in the water, as a sea anchor.
e. any device for dragging the bottom of a body of water to recover or detect objects.
17. Agriculture. a heavy wooden or steel frame drawn over the ground to smooth it.
18. Slang. someone or something tedious; a bore: It's a drag having to read this old novel.
19. a stout sledge or sled.
20. Aeronautics. the aerodynamic force exerted on an airfoil, airplane, or other aerodynamic body that tends to reduce its forward motion.
21. a four-horse sporting and passenger coach with seats inside and on top.
22. a metal shoe to receive a wheel of heavy wagons and serve as a brake on steep grades.
23. something that retards progress.
24. an act of dragging.
25. slow, laborious movement or procedure; retardation.
26. a puff or inhalation on a cigarette, pipe, etc.
27. Hunting.
a. the scent left by a fox or other animal.
b. something, as aniseed, dragged over the ground to leave an artificial scent.
c. Also called drag hunt. a hunt, esp. a fox hunt, in which the hounds follow an artificial scent.
28. Angling.
a. a brake on a fishing reel.
b. the sideways pull on a fishline, as caused by a crosscurrent.
29. clothing characteristically associated with one sex when worn by a person of the opposite sex: a Mardi Gras ball at which many of the dancers were in drag.
30. clothing characteristic of a particular occupation or milieu: Two guests showed up in gangster drag.
31. Also called comb. Masonry. a steel plate with a serrated edge for dressing a stone surface.
32. Metallurgy. the lower part of a flask. Compare cope 2 (def. 5).
33. Slang. influence: He claims he has drag with his senator.
34. Slang. a girl or woman that one is escorting; date.
35. Informal. a street or thoroughfare, esp. a main street of a town or city.
36. drag race.
37. Eastern New England. a sledge, as for carrying stones from a field.
–adjective
38. marked by or involving the wearing of clothing characteristically associated with the opposite sex; transvestite.
—Idiom
39. drag one's feet or heels, to act with reluctance; delay: The committee is dragging its feet coming to a decision.
Origin:
1350–1400; 1920–25 for def. 17; ME; both n. and v. prob. < MLG dragge grapnel, draggen to dredge, deriv. of drag- draw; defs. 29-30, 38, obscurely related to other senses and perh. a distinct word of independent orig.

Synonyms:
1. See draw. 11. linger, loiter.

knock-down-drag-out

  [nok-doun-drag-out]
–adjective
marked by unrelenting violence: a knock-down-drag-out fight.
Also, knock-down, drag-out; knock-down-and-drag-out.

Origin:
1820–30; adj. use of v. phrases knock down and drag out
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Slang Dictionary
drag

  1. n.
    something dull and boring. : What a drag. Let's go someplace interesting.
  2. n.
    an annoying person; a burdensome person. (See also schlep.) : Gert could sure be a drag when she wanted.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

drag 
1440, from O.N. draga, or a dial. variant of O.E. dragan "to draw," from P.Gmc. *dragan "to draw, pull," from PIE base *dhragh- "to draw, drag on the ground" (cf. Skt. dhrajati "pulls, slides in," Rus. drogi "wagon," and related to L. trahere; see tract (1)). Meaning "to take a puff" (of a cigarette, etc.) is from 1914. Sense of "annoying, boring person or thing" is 1813; sense of "women's clothing worn by a man" is said to be 1870 theater slang, from the sensation of long skirts trailing on the floor (another guess is Yiddish trogn "to wear," from Ger. tragen); drag queen is from 1941. Drag-out "violent fight" is from c.1859. Drag racing (1954) is from slang sense of "wagon, buggy" (1755), because a horse would drag it. By 1851 this was transferred to "street," as in the phrase main drag, and it was adopted by hot rodders for "race on city streets." Dragster is also from 1954. Dragnet is recorded from 1541, originally in fishing. To drag (one's) feet (1946, in fig. sense) is supposedly from logging, from the way to goof off while working a two-man saw.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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