1. to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
2. to search with a drag, grapnel, or the like: They dragged the lake for the body of the missing man.
3. to level and smooth (land) with a drag or harrow.
4. to introduce; inject; insert: He drags his honorary degree into every discussion.
5. to protract (something) or pass (time) tediously or painfully (often followed by out or on): They dragged the discussion out for three hours.
6. to pull (a graphical image) from one place to another on a computer display screen.

7. to be drawn or hauled along.
8. to trail on the ground.
9. to move heavily or with effort.
10. to proceed or pass with tedious slowness: The parade dragged by endlessly.
11. to feel listless or apathetic; move listlessly or apathetically (often followed by around): This heat wave has everyone dragging around.
12. to lag behind.
13. to use a drag or grapnel; dredge.
14. to take part in a drag race.
15. to take a puff: to drag on a cigarette.

16. something that retards progress.
17. the aerodynamic force exerted on an airfoil, airplane, or other aerodynamic body that tends to reduce its forward motion.
18. an act of dragging.
19. slow, laborious movement or procedure; retardation.
20. someone or something tedious; a bore: It's a drag having to read this old novel.
21. a puff or inhalation on a cigarette, pipe, etc.
22. clothing, makeup, and accessories typically associated with one gender when worn by a person of a different gender: We went to a Mardi Gras ball where many of the dancers were in drag.
23. a performance art form that is especially associated with LGBTQ+ communities and is characterized by a stylized and exaggerated interpretation of femininity, or sometimes masculinity, that plays with stereotypical gender themes.
24. clothing characteristic of a particular occupation or milieu:Two guests showed up in gangster drag.
25. a street or thoroughfare, especially a main street of a town or city.
26. a drag race.
27. Nautical.
• a designed increase of draft toward the stern of a vessel.
• resistance to the movement of a hull through the water.
• any of a number of weights dragged cumulatively by a vessel sliding down ways to check its speed.
• any object dragged in the water, as a sea anchor.
• any device for dragging the bottom of a body of water to recover or detect objects.
28. Angling.
• a brake on a fishing reel.
• the sideways pull on a fishline, as caused by a crosscurrent.
29. a heavy wooden or steel frame drawn over the ground to smooth it.
30. a stout sledge or sled.
31. a four-horse sporting and passenger coach with seats inside and on top.
32. a metal shoe to receive a wheel of heavy wagons and serve as a brake on steep grades.
33. Hunting.
• the scent left by a fox or other animal.
• something, as aniseed, dragged over the ground to leave an artificial scent.
• a hunt, especially a fox hunt, in which the hounds follow an artificial scent.
34. a steel plate with a serrated edge for dressing a stone surface.
35. the lower part of a flask.
36. influence: He claims he has drag with his senator.
37. a girl or woman that one takes on a date.

38. marked by or involving the wearing of clothing, makeup, and accessories typically associated with a different gender: They’re so talented at drag makeup.

39. to act with reluctance; delay: The committee is dragging its feet coming to a decision.

1. to pull or be pulled with force, esp along the ground or other surface
2. to persuade to come away (from something attractive or interesting)
3. to trail or cause to trail on the ground
4. to move (oneself, one's feet, etc) with effort or difficulty
5. to linger behind
6. to prolong or be prolonged tediously or unnecessarily
7. to pass (time) in discomfort, poverty, unhappiness, etc
8. to search (the bed of a river, canal, etc) with a dragnet or hook
9. to crush (clods) or level (a soil surface) by use of a drag
10. (of hounds) to follow (a fox or its trail) to the place where it has been lying
11. to draw (on a cigarette, pipe, etc)
12. to move (data) from one place to another on the screen by manipulating a mouse with its button held down
13. (of a vessel) to move away from its mooring because the anchor has failed to hold
14. to act with deliberate slowness
15. to disgrace or defame someone

16. the act of dragging or the state of being dragged
17. an implement, such as a dragnet, dredge, etc, used for dragging
18. a type of harrow consisting of heavy beams, often with spikes inserted, used to crush clods, level soil, or prepare seedbeds
19. a sporting coach with seats inside and out, usually drawn by four horses
20. a braking or retarding device, such as a metal piece fitted to the underside of the wheel of a horse-drawn vehicle
21. a person or thing that slows up progress
22. slow progress or movement
23. the resistance to the motion of a body passing through a fluid, esp through air: applied to an aircraft in flight, it is the component of the resultant aerodynamic force measured parallel to the direction of air flow
24. the trail of scent left by a fox or other animal hunted with hounds
25. an artificial trail of a strong-smelling substance, sometimes including aniseed, drawn over the ground for hounds to follow
26. See drag hunt
27. unnatural movement imparted to a fly, esp a dry fly, by tension on the angler's line
28. a person or thing that is very tedious; bore
29. a car
30. short for drag race
31. slang
• women's clothes worn by a man, usually by a transvestite (esp in the phrase in drag)
• (as modifier)
• clothes collectively
32. a draw on a cigarette, pipe, etc
33. influence or persuasive power
34. a street or road

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