Main entry: drag
Definition: the act of dragging (pulling with force)
Usage: the drag up the hill exhausted him
Definition: a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
Usage: he took a puff on his pipe; he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly
Main entry: drag
Definition: clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)
Usage: he went to the party dressed in drag; the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag
Main entry: drag
Definition: something tedious and boring
Usage: peeling potatoes is a drag
Main entry: drag
Definition: something that slows or delays progress
Usage: taxation is a drag on the economy; too many laws are a drag on the use of new land
Main entry: retarding force, drag
Definition: the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
Main entry: drag, drag on, drag out
Definition: proceed for an extended period of time
Usage: The speech dragged on for two hours
Main entry: drag
Definition: persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
Usage: He dragged me away from the television set
Definition: suck in or take (air)
Usage: draw a deep breath; draw on a cigarette
Definition: search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
Main entry: drag
Definition: pull, as against a resistance
Usage: He dragged the big suitcase behind him; These worries were dragging at him
Main entry: drag, cart, hale, haul
Definition: draw slowly or heavily
Usage: haul stones; haul nets
Definition: walk without lifting the feet
Main entry: drag, drop back, drop behind, trail, get behind, hang back
Definition: to lag or linger behind
Usage: But in so many other areas we still are dragging
Main entry: drag
Definition: move slowly and as if with great effort
Main entry: drag
Definition: use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu
Usage: drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen
Main entry: embroil, drag, drag in, sweep, sweep up, tangle
Definition: force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
Usage: They were swept up by the events; don't drag me into this business