Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective painfully or tediously slow and boring.
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- verb Present participle of
drag . - noun An instance of something being dragged.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner
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Examples
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Superstar Tim McGraw used his live performance for the radio folks at CRS to debut an excellent new album, in its entirety (recorded last year, but not coming out till late this year, he said, due to his label dragging its heels).
Chris Willman: Jamey Johnson and John Rich Help Country Radio Get Real 2009
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Conservatives are quick to write off the New Deal as unhelpful in dragging America out of the Great Depression.
Aemilia Scott: Your Conservative Friend Is Actually a Big Pinko. Or: How We Got Out of the Great Depression. Aemilia Scott 2010
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Wherefore the shaman and Tummasook, who is chief, have put their heads together, and it has been decreed that we work with the women and children in dragging in the meat and tending the wants of the hunters. '
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
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Wherefore the shaman and Tummasook, who is chief, have put their heads together, and it has been decreed that we work with the women and children in dragging in the meat and tending the wants of the hunters. '
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
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Conservatives are quick to write off the New Deal as unhelpful in dragging America out of the Great Depression.
Aemilia Scott: Your Conservative Friend Is Actually a Big Pinko. Or: How We Got Out of the Great Depression. Aemilia Scott 2010
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On the second level below ground I noticed my chin dragging in the dirt.
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Because I went in dragging my residual yoke of sadness, the one that seems perpetually tied to my shoulders, and came out with a definite spring in my step and a considerably lighter heart.
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Conservatives are quick to write off the New Deal as unhelpful in dragging America out of the Great Depression.
Aemilia Scott: Your Conservative Friend Is Actually a Big Pinko. Or: How We Got Out of the Great Depression. Aemilia Scott 2010
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Because I went in dragging my residual yoke of sadness, the one that seems perpetually tied to my shoulders, and came out with a definite spring in my step and a considerably lighter heart.
Bell-issima 2009
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Conservatives are quick to write off the New Deal as unhelpful in dragging America out of the Great Depression.
Aemilia Scott: Your Conservative Friend Is Actually a Big Pinko. Or: How We Got Out of the Great Depression. Aemilia Scott 2010
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