lug

lug

slang A large, strong, typically bumbling or foolish person, especially a man. Sometimes used endearingly. You wouldn't be acting so cocky if that lug weren't here to back you up. Ah, come here and give me a hug, you big lug!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

lug

(ləg)
n. a stupid male. (Possibly akin to the sense of “pull” = one who pulls or drags something as a laborer.) Is this lug bothering you, lady?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • lommix
  • lummox
  • lummux
  • lughead
  • musclehead
  • meathead
  • jack-off
  • schmendrick
  • shmendrick
  • kluck
References in periodicals archive
While any rifle patterned after the 700 (or Mauser 98 for that matter) has two bolt lugs that lock into the receiver at the 12--and 6-o'clock positions, the Havak's lugs lock into the 3--and 9-o'clock positions.
GREEN MACHINE: Seekins Precision Havak Bravo
In the development of my recoil lug alignment jig it was later pointed out to me that Brownells does indeed offer such a part (#488-004-700 WB) at $54.99.
Remington M700 Recoil Lug Alignment Jig: Using a special recoil lug alignment jig while installing a barrel on a Remington Model 700 rifle series receiver eliminates the guess work in proper barrel installation. Here's how to make and use one
Caption: The rifle features laser-etched checkering on pistol grip and fore-end, and a through-bolt beefs up the area between the magazine and the recoil lug shoulder.
Mossberg's call to arms: the new Patriot revere bucks today's synthetic stock trend with newly upgraded walnut
A tip from Larry when reassembling the bolt: moving the friction washer from behind the baffle to the position between the baffle and bolt head will prevent the baffle from wiping the grease off the bolt lugs.
A day with a riflesmith: Supertuning the savage action
Loosen the lug nuts maybe a quarter of the way off.
How to loosen rusty wheel lug nuts
The River Tyne still has had immature codling and coalfish with the odd better cod to 3lb among them which have fallen to lug, rag and crab.
Super cod is not beyond our Ken
I'm looking forward to the day when LUG becomes a sad historical blip.
LUG unplugged
Amphenol Industrial Operations has introduced a field-installable compression lug that offers high ampacity, low insertion force, high cycle durability and reliability.
Compression lug with two locking mechanisms
The result was the DryConn[R] Direct Bury Lug. The product is waterproof and corrosion proof and does not require the installer to cut the main line.
LDCs employing new method for splicing tracer lines
The three-inch Air Powered Lug Chuck is designed for high speed printing, laminating and sheeting applications on unwind flying or zero speed splicers, as well as other shaftless unwind/rewind applications.
Tidland
Marilyn's butterflies of dread Vernon's lug box had many uses.
Field and Harvest
Locking lug recesses are integral, with the barrel and the three bolt lugs lock directly into the barrel.
DESIGN FFATURES
The Titan 14.9R46 Hi Load 8 Star Radial delivers improved tread wear, reduced lug induced vibration and higher load capabilities over standard radials.
New agricultural tire offers more even wear and improved stability
Step 1 - Design your own microstructural lug that represents the overall solidification rate and wall thickness of the casting requiring USV testing.
Ultrasonic NDT can assess ductile iron quality
melanogaster: LUG (from Lugano, Italy), SIP (Silwood Park, U.K.), and KOS (Kos, Greece).
The genetics of adaptation: the genetic basis of resistance to wasp parasitism in Drosophila melanogaster