Jug (Verb)
Meaning 1
Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life".
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
Examples
- After his conviction, Jenkins was jugged in a local cell to await further questioning.
- His involvement in the bank robbery landed Drake jugged without access to a lawyer for several days.
- Witnesses reported that Brown had done time, being jugged by the police more than five times within twelve months.
- Ross got jugged once more due to failure in paying the total fine.
- Underground information indicated that Jake used a fake identity to avoid getting jugged by the rival gang.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
Stew in an earthenware jug; "jug the rabbit".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- She expertly jugged the rabbit by slow-cooking it in a rich stew within an earthenware jug over the campfire.
- The strong flavors in the stew that jugged the rabbit helped to tenderize the meat.
- Jugging the rabbit was a skill passed down from generations of her family's cooks.
- To make the stew more authentic, she decided to jug the rabbit in a traditional earthenware vessel.
- The old earthenware jug perfectly suited the task of jugging the rabbit over the open flame.