drag | the act of dragging (pulling with force), the drag up the hill exhausted him |
puff drag pull | a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke), he took a puff on his pipe, he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly |
drag | clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man), he went to the party dressed in drag, the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag |
main drag | the main street of a town or city |
drag | something tedious and boring, peeling potatoes is a drag |
drag | something that slows or delays progress, taxation is a drag on the economy, too many laws are a drag on the use of new land |
drag retarding force | the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid |
drag coefficient coefficient of drag | the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and the surface area of the body |
drag drag on drag out | proceed for an extended period of time, The speech dragged on for two hours |
drag | persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting, He dragged me away from the television set |
badmouth malign traduce drag through the mud | speak unfavorably about, She badmouths her husband everywhere |
drag up dredge up | mention something unpleasant from the past, Drag up old stories |
puff drag draw | suck in or take (air), draw a deep breath, draw on a cigarette |
dredge drag | search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost |
bunt drag a bunt | hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance |
drag | pull, as against a resistance, He dragged the big suitcase behind him, These worries were dragging at him |
haul hale cart drag | draw slowly or heavily, haul stones, haul nets |
drag down bear down bear down on press down on weigh down | exert a force with a heavy weight, The snow bore down on the roof |
scuff drag | walk without lifting the feet |
drag trail get behind hang back drop behind drop back | to lag or linger behind, But in so many other areas we still are dragging |
drag | move slowly and as if with great effort |
drag | use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu, drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen |
procrastinate stall drag one's feet drag one's heels shillyshally dilly-dally dillydally | postpone doing what one should be doing, He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days |
embroil tangle sweep sweep up drag drag in | force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action, They were swept up by the events, don't drag me into this business |
drag on drag out | last unnecessarily long |
knockdown-dragout knock-down-and-drag-out | extremely violent, a knock-down-and-drag-out fight |