Collins English-English Dictionary

drag [dræg]

1. 1. vb to pull or be pulled with force, esp along the ground or other surface

2. 2. n drag harrow a type of harrow consisting of heavy beams, often with spikes inserted, used to crush clods, level soil, or prepare seedbeds

3. 3. vt. [tr; often foll by away or from] to persuade to come away (from something attractive or interesting)

   he couldn't drag himself away from the shop

4. 4. vt. to trail or cause to trail on the ground

5. 5. vt. [tr] to move (oneself, one's feet, etc) with effort or difficulty

   he drags himself out of bed at dawn

6. 6. vt. to linger behind

7. 7. vt. [often foll by on or out] to prolong or be prolonged tediously or unnecessarily

   his talk dragged on for hours

8. 8. vt. [tr; foll by out] to pass (time) in discomfort, poverty, unhappiness, etc

   he dragged out his few remaining years

9. 9. vt. [when intr, usually foll by for] to search (the bed of a river, canal, etc) with a dragnet or hook

   they dragged the river for the body

10. 10. vt. [tr foll by out or from] to crush (clods) or level (a soil surface) by use of a drag

11. 11. vt. (of hounds) to follow (a fox or its trail) to the place where it has been lying

12. 12. vi. [intr] [slang] to draw (on a cigarette, pipe, etc)

13. 13. vi. [computing] to move (data) from one place to another on the screen by manipulating a mouse with its button held down

14. 14. n the act of dragging or the state of being dragged

15. 15. n an implement, such as a dragnet, dredge, etc, used for dragging

16. 16. n a sporting coach with seats inside and out, usually drawn by four horses

17. 17. n a braking or retarding device, such as a metal piece fitted to the underside of the wheel of a horse-drawn vehicle

18. 18. n a person or thing that slows up progress

19. 19. n slow progress or movement

20. 20. n [aeronautics] the resistance to the motion of a body passing through a fluid, esp through air: applied to an aircraft in flight, it is the component of the resultant aerodynamic force measured parallel to the direction of air flow

21. 21. n the trail of scent left by a fox or other animal hunted with hounds

22. 22. n an artificial trail of a strong-smelling substance, sometimes including aniseed, drawn over the ground for hounds to follow

23. 23. n See drag hunt

24. 24. n [angling] unnatural movement imparted to a fly, esp a dry fly, by tension on the angler's line

25. 25. n [informal] a person or thing that is very tedious; bore

    exams are a drag

26. 26. n [slang] a car

27. 27. n short for drag race

28. 28. n [slang] women's clothes worn by a man, usually by a transvestite (esp in the phrase in drag)

29. 29. n (as modifier)

    a drag club

    drag show

30. 30. n clothes collectively

31. 31. n [informal] a draw on a cigarette, pipe, etc

32. 32. n [US] [slang] influence or persuasive power

33. 33. n [chiefly US] [slang] a street or road

34. 34. n See also drag down drag in drag out of drag up

35. 35. n [Etymology] Old English dragan to draw; related to Swedish dragga