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dragging - definition and meaning
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective
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verb drag .noun
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective
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Superstar Tim McGraw used his live performance for the radio folks at CRS to debut an excellent new album, in its entirety (recorded last year, but not coming out till late this year, he said, due to his label dragging its heels).
Chris Willman: Jamey Johnson and John Rich Help Country Radio Get Real 2009
Conservatives are quick to write off the New Deal as unhelpful in dragging America out of the Great Depression.
Aemilia Scott: Your Conservative Friend Is Actually a Big Pinko. Or: How We Got Out of the Great Depression. Aemilia Scott 2010
Wherefore the shaman and Tummasook, who is chief, have put their heads together, and it has been decreed that we work with the women and children in dragging in the meat and tending the wants of the hunters. '
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
Wherefore the shaman and Tummasook, who is chief, have put their heads together, and it has been decreed that we work with the women and children in dragging in the meat and tending the wants of the hunters. '
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
Conservatives are quick to write off the New Deal as unhelpful in dragging America out of the Great Depression.
Aemilia Scott: Your Conservative Friend Is Actually a Big Pinko. Or: How We Got Out of the Great Depression. Aemilia Scott 2010
On the second level below ground I noticed my chin dragging in the dirt.
Top 10 Photos of the Week | Impact Lab 2010
Because I went in dragging my residual yoke of sadness, the one that seems perpetually tied to my shoulders, and came out with a definite spring in my step and a considerably lighter heart.
2009 October « Becca’s Byline 2009
Conservatives are quick to write off the New Deal as unhelpful in dragging America out of the Great Depression.
Aemilia Scott: Your Conservative Friend Is Actually a Big Pinko. Or: How We Got Out of the Great Depression. Aemilia Scott 2010
Because I went in dragging my residual yoke of sadness, the one that seems perpetually tied to my shoulders, and came out with a definite spring in my step and a considerably lighter heart.
Bell-issima 2009
Conservatives are quick to write off the New Deal as unhelpful in dragging America out of the Great Depression.
Aemilia Scott: Your Conservative Friend Is Actually a Big Pinko. Or: How We Got Out of the Great Depression. Aemilia Scott 2010
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