lug v.2
1. to pawn.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Newcastle Chron. (NSW) 11 July 4/6: English Extracts [...] After examining [the watch], Clark handed it to the prisoner, telling him at the same time to ‘lugg’ it. The prisoner then took it and ‘lugged’ it at a pawnshop for 10s. [...] ‘Lugg’ is the slang for pawn. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Sl. and Its Analogues. |
2. (orig. US) to beg.
| Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Dec. 26/2: We didn’t have our fare home, and it was a long walk to town. We tried ‘lugging,’ but everyone we asked had either ‘blown out’ or had his bare fare only. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Und. and Its Vernacular’ in Clues mag. 158—62: lug Beg. | |
| Argot: Dict. of Und. Sl. | |
| Lingo 50: TO bite or lug is to borrow money; a shoddy dropper is a hawker. |
3. (US) to extend credit.
| ‘Hotel Sl.’ in AS XIV:3 Oct. 240/1: lug Same as cuff. |
4. (US black) to berate, to criticize harshly.
| ‘Catheads [...] and Cho-Cho Sticks’ in Abernethy Bounty of Texas (1990) 209: lug, v. – to ridicule; to cut someone up with words. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 245: lug See cap, 2–3 [i.e. berate, disparage]. |
In compounds
a pawnshop.
| , | | Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. |
| Melbourne Punch ‘City Police Court’ 3 Oct. 234/1: The Mayor. – What’s the name of the lug chovey in which you lumbered the prop? | |
| Sl. Dict. | |
| Aus. Sl. Dict. 47: Lug Chovey, a pawnbroker’s shop. | |
| Pink ’Un and Pelican 115: She knows no more abaht runnin’ a little bundle into a lug chovey’s than John the Baptis’ knew abaht chap oysters! |
In phrases
in pawn.
| Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn). | |
| Sl. Dict. | |
| Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 5: Lug - Pawn, as ‘his togs are in Lug’. |
cadging, begging.
| Sport (Adelaide) 24 May 12/1: They Say [...] That The mob have taken on the cherry ripes; they will soon be on the lug for tobacco. | |
| Und. Speaks n.p.: Out on the lug, engaged in begging racket. | |
| DSUE (8th edn) 706: [...] C.20. |