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keg

[ keg ]

noun

  1. a small cask or barrel, usually holding from 5 to 10 gallons (19 to 38 liters).
  2. a unit of weight, equal to 100 pounds (45 kilograms), used for nails.
  3. Also kegger. a keg party; beer bust.


keg

/ kɛɡ /

noun

  1. a small barrel with a capacity of between five and ten gallons
    1. an aluminium container in which beer is transported and stored
    2. Also calledkeg beer beer kept in a keg: it is infused with gas and served under pressure
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of keg1

1585–95; earlier cag < Old Norse kaggi
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Word History and Origins

Origin of keg1

C17: variant of Middle English kag, of Scandinavian origin; related to Old Norse kaggi cask
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Idioms and Phrases

see sitting on a powder keg .
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Example Sentences

They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.

For the senior senator from Louisiana, the lasting image from her fourth Senate campaign will be a keg stand.

Not her own—but Landrieu did provide an assist to a man doing a keg stand at Louisiana State University.

We played keg parties, but everyone was there for the free beer, not for us.

Logic is a rare bird in these parts and Crimea is nothing short of a powder keg.

If old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.

A small keg, or breaker, was thrown overboard and picked up, with a bag of fifteen or twenty pounds of hardtack.

More than that, he always washed before eating, even if he had to divide the last water in the keg.

Gossoon,' he says, 'put a keg iv sherry wine on th' ice,' he says.

So Ralph fell to on the bag of biscuit and the keg of water, while Duff bathed and bound up his leg as best he could.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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