Usually means: Embrace showing love, comfort, support.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word hug:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. hug: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hug: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hug: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hug: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hug: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hug, hug: Wordnik
  7. hug: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hug: Wiktionary
  9. hug: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hug: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hug: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hug, hug: Dictionary.com
  13. hug: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hug: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hug (folklore), Hug (song), Hug: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hug: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hug: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hug: Rhymezone
  19. hug: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hug: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hug: Free Dictionary
  22. hug: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hug: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. hug: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hug: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hug: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hug: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

(Note: See huggable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A close embrace, especially when charged with an emotion such as affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, aggression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug").
noun:  A particular grip in wrestling.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To crouch; to huddle as with cold.
verb:  (intransitive) To cling closely together.
verb:  (transitive or reciprocal) To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms.
verb:  (transitive) To stay close to.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.

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