drag
/dɹæɡ/ noun C2- A performance art form associated with the LGBTQ+ community, that features a stylized and exaggerated portrayal of femininity or, at times, masculinity, often playing with gender stereotypes.
- Women's clothing, accessories, and makeup worn by men for the purpose of entertainment. · He performed in drag.
- Men's clothing, accessories, and makeup worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A drag king or drag queen.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture. · corporate drag
Plural drags
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- drag down To cause (other people or another person) to suffer the s...
- drag in Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drag, in.
- drag into To involve a reluctant person with a difficult or dangero...
- drag on To last too long.
- drag out To extend or lengthen excessively; to draw out.
- drag up To remind people of (something, usually unpleasant, from ...
From the library
If you drag us both before a tribunal I will still say, ‘No, my daughter is not guilty;—there is no crime in my house.
Well, I tell you I will not drag my daughter before a tribunal, and give her up to the executioner!
“Wild horses won’t drag the secret from me,” promised Anne solemnly.
“How would wild horses drag a secret from a person anyhow?”
Other matches
- drag To pull along a surface or through a medium, so... B1
- drag Resistance of a fluid to something moving throu... B2
- drag To perform as a drag queen or drag king. C2
- drag down To cause
- drag in Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- drag into To involve a reluctant person with a difficult ...
- drag on To last too long.
- drag out To extend or lengthen excessively
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