Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To store in a keg.

  2. (UK)The pulling down of someone's trousers or kegs, oftentimes as a kind of bullying or prank.

Examples

17 sentences

  1. Would you help me move these beer kegs?

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  2. We'll get a keg of beer for the party.

    deWir werden für die Feier ein Fässchen Bier besorgen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. How many kegs of beer did you order for the party?

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  4. Algeria would never become a power keg.

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  5. Tom promised to bring a keg to the party.

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Origin

From Middle English kag, from Old Norse kaggi (“keg”), likely a diminutive of Proto-German

From Middle English kag, from Old Norse kaggi (“keg”), likely a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kagô (“bush, branch, stalk, stump”). Cognate with Icelandic kaggi (“keg; cask”), Norwegian kagg (“keg”), Swedish kagge (“keg”), Low German kag (“vessel; craft”), Dutch kaag (“vessel; craft”). Compare also English cag and chag.

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Forms

kegs, kegging, kegged, kegged
Base formkeg · to keg
3rd person singularkegs
Present participlekegging
Past simplekegged
Past participlekegged

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theykeg
he, she, itkegs

Past simpleLesson

all personskegged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave kegged
he, she, ithas kegged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill keg

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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