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jug

/d͡ʒʌɡ/ noun C2
  1. Detention (after-school student punishment). (US, countable, uncountable)

Plural jugs

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It was full of a new vital, pulsing personality that seemed to pervade it and to be quite independent of schoolgirl books and dresses and ribbons, and even of the cracked blue jug full of apple blossoms on the table.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 161 · C1
The Hatter was the only one who got any advantage from the change: and Alice was a good deal worse off than before, as the March Hare had just upset the milk-jug into his plate.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 55 · B2
The man looked at the bank-notes, felt them, counted them, turned pale, then red, then rushed into his room to drink a glass of water, but he had no time to reach the water-jug, and fainted in the midst of his dried herbs.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 651 · C1

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