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drag
noun- anything or anyone boring or tedious US, 1863
- That was a solid drag[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 132, 1946
- He wants two bucks a stick! What a drag! — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 101, 1952
- If you get to be known as a “drag” or a “bring down,” you can’t do business with them. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 31, 1953
- It’s a funny thing how life can be such a drag one minute and a solid sender the next. — Louis Armstrong, Satchmo, p. 126, 1954
- “That’s a solid drag, poppa,” Movement said. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 150, 1954
- “Honey, your grandma is feeling the least.” “What a drag!” said Red. — Steve Allen, Bop Fables, p. 36, 1955
- Harlem is a drag, man, strictly a drag. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 68, 1956
- Drag, they will tell you, is what everything is. Possession are a drag. Society is a drag. Mass government is a drag. God is a drag. Madison Avenue and General Motors are drags. — Jim Schock, Life is a Lousy Drag, 1958
- Well, Pops, life from then on was strictly a drag[.] — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 24, 1959
- Such a drag, man. They keep changing postmen and sometimes they’ll just toss it on the floor. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 106, 1961
- SIMON: She’s a trend setter. It’s her profession! GEORGE: She’s a drag. A well-known drag. We turn the sound down on her and say rude things. — A Hard Day’s Night, 1964
- But as soon as I got up that morning, I could tell that Dad was going to be a real drag. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 95, 1965
- Kind of a drag, when your baby don’t love you / Kind of a drag, when you know she’s been untrue. — The Buckinghams, Kind of a Drag, 1967
- What a drag it is getting old... — The Rolling Stones, Mother’s Little Helper, 1967
- Plastic people! / Oh, baby, know / You’re such a drag. — Frank Zappa, Plastic People, 1967
- Everyday he had to drive uptown to a bar to cop, and it became a daily drag. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 106, 1967
- Getting up early is an incredible drag, or at least I should think it would be. — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 69, 1968
- Jimmy was uncommunicative and even called the woman a “drag”–at which, misunderstanding, she lost her temper–but everything was a drag these days. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 59, 1968
- Except that the heroes were sculpted from water and sand, nobody really read the quarterlies, and the cocktail parties were a full drag. — Richard Farina, Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone, p. 37, 1969
- I can’t wait until I can drive next year. I walk every day. It’s such a drag. — Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982
- There’s like this whole big monster deal, it’s endless and it’s a total drag. — The Breakfast Club, 1985
- PIP: So you answer the phones and all? SUZZI: Yeah, for like six hours a day. PIP: What a drag, huh? — Airheads, 1994
- Mab would have been a drag at the club, complaining about the smoke or the possibility of being squashed by a steel-toed boot. — Francesca Lia Block, I Was a Teenage Fairy, p. 89, 1998
- a conventional, narrow-minded person US
- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
- an unattractive girl US
- A: But that’s better than being stuck. Q: Stuck? A: With a pig, a drag a beast. — Max Shulman, Guided Tour of Campus Humor, p. 106, 1955
- a transvestite UK
- I tell the drag barman to give me a vodka and tonic[.] — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 23, 1974
- He knew all the drags in the township[.] — Bart Luirink (translated by Loes Nas), Moffies, p. 118, 2000
- female clothing worn by men; male clothing worn by women UK, 1870
A term born in the theatre, but the non-theatrical sense has long dominated. He or she who wears “drag” may or may not be a homosexual. - It is a law violation for entertainers to appear in “drag” (clothes of the opposite sex. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 68, 1948
- [H]e remembered that when Guy got bounced from the studio–for sneaking into the costume department and borrowing fancy ladies’ dresses to wear at private drag parties–the kid went back to New York. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 202, 1954
- [R]ipping and tearing Georgette[’]s drag clothes, her lovely dresses and silks, stamping on her shoes. — Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 56, 1957
- “I may tell you in strictest confidence that some of these girls ...” with gambler fingers he shifts the photos in Three Card Monte Passese–are really boys. In uh drag I believe is the word???” — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, pp. 194–195, 1957
- [F]emale impersonation was called “drag,” and “drag clubs” sprung up all over the nation, from New York to San Francisco. — Antony James, America’s Homosexual Underground, p. 83, 1965
- [T]he rest of ’em looked like sissies in drag. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 100, 1973
- I think if everyone were honest, they’d confess that the lady looks exactly like a man in drag. — Austin Powers, 1997
- any kind of clothing UK
- Take first the Misery Kid and his trad. drag. — Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners, 1959
- Oh, couldn’t be doing with all that naph drag, ducky. — Barry Took and Marty Feldman, Round The Horne, 10 April 1966
- — the cast of “Aspects of Love”, Prince of Wales Theatre, Palare (Boy Dancer Talk) for Beginners, 1989–92
- — Morrissey, Bona Drag, 1990
- clout, influence US, 1896
- The money came in so fast and his drag was so good that he felt immune[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 185, 1948
- I have plenty of drag around this town. — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 370, 1953
- How much drag do I have with Lyndon Johnson? But none. — Glendon Swarthout, Where the Boys Are, p. 201, 1960
- Having drag in Vietnam was very important for specialized units that required special supplies or support. — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 154, 1990
- a street or road, especially a major urban street UK, 1851
- Man, I could see myself in a sharp uniform, strutting down the main drag blowing my sax while the chicks lined up along the curb giving me the eye all the way. — Milton Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 19, 1946
- The houses thinned out and there were fewer roads intersecting the main drag. — Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, p. 126, 1951
- Washington’s Main Drag is F St. if you could call it such. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 12, 1951
- [A] nosy sheriff who thought I was pretty young to be hitchhiking accosted me on the main drag. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, pp. 230–231, 1957
- Linda would see him in a pickup truck on the “drag” Saturday nights, bumper to bumper from Wendy’s down to Anthony’s, where kids from both schools would hang out in the shopping center parking lot. — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 79, 1999
- a car UK, 1935
From earlier senses as “a coach”, “a cart”, “a wagon” and “a van”. English Gypsy use. - He could do things with a drag in traffic that would make a racing motorist’s hair stand on end. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 15, 1956
- — San Francisco News, p. 6, 25 March 1958
- Brum [Birmingham] was swarming with coppers who might already have the number and description of the drag. — Derek Bickerton, Payroll, p. 83, 1959
- — Jimmy Stockin, On The Cobbles, p. 10, 2000
- a freight train, especially a slow one US, 1925
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 262, 1946
- [R]ather than await a drag, we steped undeterred to the highway where instant luck befell us–a man on his way to Cheyenne picked us up before we’d walked a hundred yards. — Neal Cassady, The First Third, p. 88, 1971
- — Linda Niemann, Boomer, p. 249, 1990
- an inhalation (of a cigarette, pipe or cigar) US, 1904
- Another minute now, just time for another quick drag on my muta[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 167, 1946
- [W]ith the smoking of two drags of te I felt constrained to open an extra button down and so show my tanned, hairy chest[.] — Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, p. 8, 1958
- Give me a drag. — The Hustler, 1961
- Then he settled comfortably in the chair and took a deep drag on the cigarette without watching Franchot leave the apartment. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 175, 1968
- They all take a drag on their reefers / And say prayers to St. Konky Mohair. (Collected in 1962). — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 107, 1976
- Carlucci lights his cigarette and half of it disappears on the first drag. — Robert Campbell, The Cat’s Meow, p. 50, 1988
- a marijuana cigarette UK
- — Home Office Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, 1978
- the soldier at the very rear of a group of soldiers on patrol US
From the older term “drag rider” (1888) for the cowhand riding at the rear of a herd. - — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 67, 1991
- a sentence of three months’ imprisonment AUSTRALIA, 1877
- — The (Sydney) Bulletin, 26 April 1975
- a confidence game in which a wallet is dropped as bait for the victim US
- — New York Times Magazine, p. 88, 16 March 1958
- a robbing spree US
- Now as I said when you’re doin’ the drag you’re never suppose to have no two guys or three guys walkin’ down the streets together. You’re suppose to have them located so that all of you meet at one given spot. — Henry Williamson, Hustler!, p. 98, 1965
- an event for cross-dressers US, 1919
- That was the time of “drags” in Harlem. In these affairs there would be fashion parades for the male queers dressed in women’s clothes. — Ethel Waters, His Eye is on the Sparrow, p. 149, 1951
▶ the drag
a several-block area near Independence Square, Port of Spain, Trinidad TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1984- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
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