chug /tʃʌɡ/
verb (
past tense and past participle chugged,
present participle chugging)
[
Date: 1800-1900;
Origin: From the sound]
1. [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] if a car, train etc chugs somewhere, it moves there slowly, with the engine making a repeated low sound
chug along/up/around etc
The boat chugged out of the harbour.2. [transitive] (
also chug-a-lug)
American English informal to drink all of something in a glass or bottle without stopping
3. [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to make slow but steady progress:
The economy just keeps chugging along.—chug noun [countable usually singular] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲