Usually means: Prolong an event unnecessarily long.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. drag out: Merriam-Webster
  2. drag out: Vocabulary.com
  3. drag-out: Wordnik
  4. drag out: Wiktionary
  5. drag-out, drag out: Dictionary.com
  6. drag-out: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  7. drag out: Rhymezone
  8. drag out: FreeDictionary.org
  9. drag out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. drag out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. drag out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drag out: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drag-out, drag out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drag out: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drag out: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (drag out)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To extend or lengthen excessively.
verb:  (transitive) To haul or bring out forcefully or from an awkward location.

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