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Recyclable Plastic Keg www.pubkeg.com Rehrig Pacific's 20L. PubKeg Alternative to Metal Beer Kegs

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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, keg·ger. a keg party; beer bust.

Origin:
1585–95; earlier cag < Old Norse kaggi

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World English Dictionary

keg (kɛɡ)

—n
1.	a small barrel with a capacity of between five and ten gallons
2.	(Brit)
	a. an aluminium container in which beer is transported and stored
	b. Also called: keg beer beer kept in a keg: it is infused with gas and served under pressure

[C17: variant of Middle English kag, of Scandinavian origin; related to Old Norse kaggi cask]

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Word Origin & History

keg

1452, from O.N. kaggi "keg, cask," of unknown origin. Specific sense of "barrel of beer" is from 1945.

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keg definition

n.
a beer belly. : If you didn't drink so much beer, you wouldn't have such a keg.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

keg

see sitting on a powder keg.

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