jug

1. (transitive) To stew in an earthenware jug etc.Examples: "jugged hare"transitive

2. (transitive, slang) To put into jail.slangtransitive

3. (intransitive) To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.Examples: "Down in the orchard a nightingale jug-jugged, as if he, too, had dropped into a soft billet."intransitive

4. (intransitive, of quails or partridges) To nestle or collect together in a covey.intransitive

1. (US, Jesuit schools, countable or uncountable) detention (after-school student punishment)Examples: "“Take a week’s Jug,” he said, “and keep your nose clean.”"; "I had another role that earned me almost no appreciation at all: I served as the master after classes in the JUG room, where students appeared when they received detention."; "In days gone by jugs included the memorization of Shakespeare or the writing out of some well-known document like the Constitution."UScountableuncountable

1. (US, Jesuit schools, transitive) to issue a detention (to a student)Examples: "Students would say they “got JUGged,” meaning they’d been disciplined by a teacher. Most of the time punishment entailed memorizing a passage of a text or an obscure snatch of poetry."; "The first time I met Ben was in after-school detention. He’d been jugged for faking his mom’s signature, and I was serving for clapping erasers in the hallway."UStransitive

1. (slang) To hustle or make money, usually aggressively.slang

2. (slang) To acquire or obtain through force; snatch, steal; to rob, especially in reference to jugging (which see).Examples: "I just jugged a band director; now I got a brand new saxophone."slang