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1  [juhg] noun, verb, jugged, jug⋅ging.
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–noun
1. a large container usually made of earthenware, metal, or glass, commonly having a handle, a narrow neck, and sometimes a cap or cork.
2. the contents of such a container; jugful: a jug of wine.
3. Slang. jail; prison.
4. jugs, Slang: Vulgar. a woman's breasts.
–verb (used with object)
5. to put into a jug.
6. to stew (meat) in an earthenware jug.
7. Slang. to put in jail; imprison.
Origin:
1530–40; perh. special use of Jug hypocoristic form of Joan, woman's name
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2  [juhg] noun, verb, jugged, jug⋅ging.
–noun
1. a sound made by a bird, esp. a nightingale.
–verb (used without object)
2. to make such a sound.
Origin:
1515–25; imit.
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jug   (jŭg)   
n.  

    1. A large, often rounded vessel of earthenware, glass, or metal with a small mouth, a handle, and usually a stopper or cap.

    2. The amount that a jug can hold.

  2. A small pitcher.

  3. Slang A jail.

  4. jugs Vulgar Slang A woman's breasts.

tr.v.   jugged, jug·ging, jugs

  1. To stew (a hare, for example) in an earthenware jug or jar.

  2. Slang To put into jail.


[Middle English jugge.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
jug

  1. n.
    jail. (Usually with the.) : Take it easy. I don't want to end up in the jug.
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

jug 
"deep vessel for carrying liquids," 1538, jugge, variant of jubbe, of unknown origin, perhaps from jug "a low woman, a maidservant" (mid-16c.), an alteration of a common personal name, Joan or Judith. Use as a musical instrument is attested from 1946. Jughead "klutz" is from 1926; jughandle "tight curved road used for turns" is from 1961. Jugs for "woman's breasts" first recorded 1920 in Australian slang, short for milk jugs.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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