Drag

When designing cars, manufacturers have to take drag into consideration.

A high thrust-to-weight ratio helps a rocket to overcome the effects of gravity drag.

"He told me that he was certain that Coates shot at him. We threw out a drag and landed Coates within an hour."

He got high after just one drag of the joint.

Give me a drag on that roach!

Travelling to work in the rush hour is a real drag.

December 24, 1865, James David Forbes, letter to Dr. Symonds My lectures […] were only a pleasure to me, and no drag.

Yes, I wish that for just one time / You could stand inside my shoes / You'd know what a drag it is / To see you

I’m down here readin’ for my little go during the Long, only I come over from Baymouth pretty often in my drag…

Alcee Arobin and Mrs. Highcamp called for her one bright afternoon in Arobin's drag.

the main drag

a back drag

to run a drag

Near-synonyms: dray, stoneboat

a stone drag

A northbound drag of furnace coal on the former South Yorkshire Joint Line crosses the East Coast main line near Black Carr behind Class "O4/1" 2-8-0 No. 63693.

Had a drag in his walk.

“Our music is not like some other types where the energy is back and forth – music considered drag is like giving up oneself, to be pulled and controlled,” she says.

Whatever the appellation, these artists are doing some amazing stuff. Haunted house and drag are probably the most apposite terms because the music sounds like ghostly apparitions of old dance tunes, only at half-speed.

They call this music drag because it's like dance music dragged down by the ponderous weight of existence (there's a Balam Acab track called Heavy Living Things); they call it witch house because it haunts you long after you stop listening.

In your own words, what is drag or witch house music?

Okay, I'll take point, Kate, you take drag.

The sodger who done it was quodded, but only for a drag, and he swore to God as how he’d do for me the next time as he comed across me.

1869, A Merchant. Editor: Frank Henderson, Six Years in the Prisons of England The copper knew I did that job, and had me up on suspicion some time after, and gave me a drag (three months) over it. The next bit I did was a 'sixer' (six months), and I escaped from prison in about three weeks after I got it.

Let's drag this load of wood over to the shed.

The misbehaving child was dragged out of the classroom.

I knew where I didn't want to land so with some aggressive steering I was able to crab into the wind and land successfully on an open plowed farm field some 50 yards west of the hardball road I had seen, next to what seemed at the time to be a T intersection that led off to the east. Although I landed softly, there was a stiff 15-knot wind so I was getting drug a little bit. On my back I dug my heels in and reached up to pop both canopy releases, but on better thought decided against it, as the parachute would probably blow across the road.

Time seems to drag when you're waiting for a bus.

The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun.

a. 1732, John Gay, epistle to a Lady Long, open panegyric drags at best.

The Irishman is the director’s longest drama, but it never drags.

Dragging yourself out of a warm bed in the early hours of a wintry morning to go for a hike in the woods: It’s not an easy thing for some to do, but the visual treasures that await could be well worth the effort. If the weather conditions and the local flora are just right, you might come across fleeting, delicate frozen formations sprouting from certain plant stems, literally a garden of ice.

have dragged a lingering life

You aren't going to be able to carry any more stuff. You're dragging around all that junk.

A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her.

Drag the file into the window to open it.

The car was so low to the ground that its muffler was dragging on a speed bump.

Arsenal were struggling for any sort of rhythm and Aaron Lennon dragged an effort inches wide as Tottenham pressed for a second.

while I dragged my brains for such a song

You just drag him 'cause he's got more money than you.

He performed in drag.

I know what "in drag" means; it is the slang for going about in women's clothes.

With the aid of informers they discovered where the great drag dances were being held and turned their attention thither. [...] They couldn't, of course, be advertised, but no publicity was needed. The network always managed to reach any one who might want to go and had half-a-crown to spare for a ticket. About three-quarters of the men who attended these dances were in drag.

A heterosexual person cannot really break into their [homosexuals'] inner circles. They have parties or "drags" to which only homosexuals are admitted, and at these some generally appear in female dress.

This freedom of speech of hers was a kind of masquerade of sexuality, like the rubber breasts homosexuals put on for drags, [...]

1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure That Mich drag Loretta sent me about 10 pictures of her so I wouldn't think her a "decrepit old lady." But too bad—she looked like someone's biddy aunt.

To sublet in comfy fag hsehold for Jun, July, Aug. […] Drags & Dykes welcome.

corporate drag

As the album soared to the top of the charts, straight discos picked up on it. […] The Village People performed at 2001, the same disco that provides setting for much of Saturday Night Fever. Dressed in butch gay drag, the men in the group couldn't keep the women away.

the dragon gets a first shot off! although, afterwards, they attack at same speed, but trust me, drags attack first. Rayn ps. I'd rather gryphs than drags.

> 2 catacomb dragons > 3 volcanic dragons Lose 3 of the drags: 5 is too many

Barring the +1 Con this would seem to be pretty good for going up against the drags.....