drag
noun/dræɡ/
/dræɡ/
- [singular] (informal) a boring person or thing; something that is annoying
- He's such a drag.
- Walking's a drag—let's drive there.
- Having to work late every day is a drag.
- It’s a real drag having to go all the way to London for the interview.
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- [singular] a drag on somebody/something (informal) a person or thing that makes progress difficult
- He came to be seen as a drag on his own party's prospects.
- [countable] (informal) an act of breathing in smoke from a cigarette, etc. synonym draw
- She took a long drag on her cigarette.
- [uncountable] (informal) clothes that are usually worn by the opposite sex (usually women’s clothes worn by a man as part of an entertainment)
- in drag He performed in drag.
- [uncountable] the force of the air that acts against the movement of an aircraft or other vehicle compare lift see also main drag
boring person/thing
somebody/something stopping progress
on cigarette
women’s clothes
physics
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old English dragan or Old Norse draga ‘to draw’; the noun partly from Middle Low German dragge ‘grapnel, a grappling hook’.
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