noun

• (automotive) A lug nut.
• (electrical engineering) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
• (UK) An ear or ear lobe.
  "While shaving, the poor sod had a fit and cut part of a lug off."
• (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
  "They put the lug on him at the courthouse."

verb

• (transitive, sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
  "Why do you always lug around so many books?"
• (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.
  "When driving up a hill, choose a lower gear so you don't lug the engine."
• (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
• (intransitive, horse-racing) To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.

noun

• (UK, dialect) A rod or pole.
  "And from the bodies [of pines and oaks] the boughes and loftie lugges they beare."
• (UK, archaic, dialect) A measure of length equal to 16+¹⁄₂ feet.
  "eight lugs of grownd; / Into the which returning backe, he fell"
• (nautical) A lugsail.
• (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.

noun

• (computing) Initialism of Linux user group.