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hug

/hʌɡ/ sustantivo B2

En español: abrazo, apapacho, apapuche

  1. A close embrace, especially when charged with an emotion such as affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, aggression, compassion, or the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace).
  2. A particular grip in wrestling.

Plural hugs

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Kaa was not a poison snake--in fact he rather despised the poison snakes as cowards--but his strength lay in his hug, and when he had once lapped his huge coils round anybody there was no more to be said.
The Jungle Book, p. 42 · B2
Kaa was everything that the monkeys feared in the jungle, for none of them knew the limits of his power, none of them could look him in the face, and none had ever come alive out of his hug.
The Jungle Book, p. 57 · B2
Darcy may hug himself.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 62 · B2
To no class of persons is the presentation of a gratuitous opera-box more acceptable than to the wealthy millionaire, who still hugs economy while boasting of carrying a king’s ransom in his waistcoat pocket.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 539 · C1

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