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a drag

  1. A tedious experience, a bore, as in After several thousand times, signing your autograph can be a drag. This seemingly modern term was army slang during the Civil War. The allusion probably is to drag as something that impedes progress. [Colloquial; mid-1800s]



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Williams would look into the camera, mime taking a drag from a cigarette, throw her head back and say, “I have lived!”

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For folks only vaguely aware of the pop star through last year's mega-hit "Espresso," that might not be immediately obvious, but there's a drag queen-esque aspect to the way young fans relate to the petite blonde.

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The pair moved to London at the start of the 1980s, where Frankie worked as a traffic warden by day and a drag queen by night.

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The winner was Sofia Camacho, a drag artist and Nike run coach based in New York, who clocked in at one hour, 15 minutes and 25 seconds.

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Holder capitalised, pulling a drag down over square leg first ball before slamming two more sixes down the ground in simple but brutal fashion.

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