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rug

[ ruhg ]

noun

  1. a thick fabric for covering part of a floor, often woven of wool and often having an oblong shape with a border design. Compare carpet.
  2. the treated skin of an animal, used as a floor covering:

    a bear rug.

  3. Chiefly British. a piece of thick, warm cloth, used as a coverlet, lap robe, etc.
  4. Slang. toupee; hairpiece.


RUG

1

abbreviation for

  1. restricted users group
“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


rug

2

/ rʌɡ /

noun

  1. a floor covering, smaller than a carpet and made of thick wool or of other material, such as an animal skin
  2. a blanket, esp one used as a wrap or lap robe for travellers
  3. slang.
    a wig
  4. pull the rug out from under
    to betray, expose, or leave defenceless
“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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Derived Forms

  • ˈrugˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From

  • ruglike adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of rug1

1545–55; < Old Norse rǫgg wool, long hairs; compare Norwegian rugga covering of coarse wool, Swedish rugg coarse hair
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Word History and Origins

Origin of rug1

C16: from Scandinavian; compare Norwegian rugga , Swedish rugg coarse hair. See rag 1
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. cut a rug, Older Slang. to dance, especially to jitterbug.

More idioms and phrases containing rug

see pull the rug out from under ; sweep under the rug . Also see under carpet .
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Example Sentences

The “24-hour news cycle” just makes them harder to sweep under the rug and ignore.

“I had to lie on a huge, fur rug and have a nightmare,” Prince Charles told his biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby.

Or, to put it more accurately: conflict is inevitably swept under the rug, at any and all costs.

A barefoot corpse in camouflaged khakis is being carried into the street, partially wrapped in rug, as I enter the house.

That is, until he ditches the crutches and really cuts a rug, to the delight of everyone looking on.

The motherly woman received the babe instinctively and cast aside the travelling-rug in which he was enveloped.

Though she was warmly wrapped in a soft rug of silvery fur, a chill crept into her heart.

When Yung Pak ate his meals, he sat upon a rug on the floor with his father and such male guests as might be in the house.

The cigar stump held firmly between his teeth, he stood on the rug before the hearth, facing the door.

On the sheepskin rug before the fire a Manx cat was dozing beside a pair of carpet slippers.

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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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