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tug
noun- an act of masturbation AUSTRALIA
- I’m not saying I always have a morning tug to get the day started[.] — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 81, 2001
- an arrest UK
A pun on PULL (an arrest). - I only ever got a tug the once, and they couldn’t pin a thing on me. — Val McDermid, Keeping on the Right Side of the Law, p. 178, 1999
- a warning of imminent danger given from one criminal to another, or beggar to beggar, etc AUSTRALIA
Often in the phrase “give you the tug”. - — The (Sydney) Bulletin, 26 April 1975
▶ give a tug
to arrest someone UK- [W]henever he got too bolshie they’d give a tug. — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says..., p. 125, 2000
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