Usually means: Floor covering made from textiles.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word rug:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. rug: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rug: Merriam-Webster
  3. rug: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rug: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rug: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rug: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rug, rug: Wordnik
  8. rug: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rug, rug: Wiktionary
  10. rug: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rug: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rug: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. RUG: Dictionary.com
  14. rug: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rug: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Rug (animal covering), Rug (textile), Rug: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rug: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rug: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rug: Rhymezone
  20. rug, rug (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rug: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. RUG: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. rug: FreeDictionary.org
  24. rug: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. rug: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rug-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rug: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rug: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. RUG: Acronym Finder
  2. RUG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. rug: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rug, rug, rug, rug: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rug: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. RUG, r.u.g, rug: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rugs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A partial covering for a floor.
noun:  (UK, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.
noun:  (historical, now rare) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.
noun:  (historical, now rare) A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) A person wearing a rug.
noun:  A cloth covering for a horse.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) A dense layer of natural vegetation that precludes the growth of crops.
noun:  (slang) The female pubic hair.
noun:  A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
noun:  (slang) A wig; a hairpiece.
noun:  (colloquial) A dense growth of chest hair.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with a rug.
verb:  (Scotland, archaic) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
noun:  (slang) short form of Rugbeian
noun:  (US, slang, ethnic slur) Short for rughead. [(US, slang, ethnic slur) A black person.]
verb:  Clipping of rug pull. [(cryptocurrencies, transitive) To carry out a rug-pull.]

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