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say it: drag
drag is a verb and noun meaning "pull, as against a resistance". It carries 17 recorded senses.
move slowly and as if with great effort
use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu
“drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen”
persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
“He dragged me away from the television set”
the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
something that slows or delays progress
“taxation is a drag on the economy”
“too many laws are a drag on the use of new land”
clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)
“he went to the party dressed in drag”
“the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag”
a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
“he took a puff on his pipe”
“he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for drag come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.