keg
a small cask or barrel, usually holding from 5 to 10 gallons (19 to 38 liters).
a unit of weight, equal to 100 pounds (45 kilograms), used for nails.
Also kegger. a keg party; beer bust.
Origin of keg
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How to use keg in a sentence
In the season finale, thanks to Maarva and Andor’s connections to the rebellion, her funeral becomes a powder keg for the Republic.
‘Andor’ Season One Was Star Wars at Its Most Beautifully Human | Alani Vargas | November 23, 2022 | The Daily BeastA football tailgate is as sacred as it is singular, perhaps the only moment of the day where camaraderie is prioritized over competition20 and a keg stand can draw political support.
She did once do a keg stand on camera while people yelled, “Suck it!”
History-Making Trans State Legislator Danica Roem's Roadmap for Protecting LGBTQ Kids | Madeleine Carlisle / Manassas, Va. | April 13, 2022 | TImeArmy Lieutenant Robert Temple and two others meanwhile rowed to Governors Island and found 100-pound kegs of powder.
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They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.
In Jerusalem Home Demolitions, the Biblical Justice of Revenge | Creede Newton | November 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor the senior senator from Louisiana, the lasting image from her fourth Senate campaign will be a keg stand.
Mary Landrieu-Bill Cassidy Louisiana Senate Race Heads to a Runoff | Tim Mak | November 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNot her own—but Landrieu did provide an assist to a man doing a keg stand at Louisiana State University.
Mary Landrieu-Bill Cassidy Louisiana Senate Race Heads to a Runoff | Tim Mak | November 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe played keg parties, but everyone was there for the free beer, not for us.
Mark Ruffalo Blasts Iraq’s GOP Warmongers, Talks ‘Begin Again’ and ‘Avengers’ | Marlow Stern | June 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLogic is a rare bird in these parts and Crimea is nothing short of a powder keg.
Why America Must Stop Comparing Ukraine To World War II | Will Cathcart | March 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairA small keg, or breaker, was thrown overboard and picked up, with a bag of fifteen or twenty pounds of hardtack.
More than that, he always washed before eating, even if he had to divide the last water in the keg.
The Flockmaster of Poison Creek | George W. OgdenGossoon,' he says, 'put a keg iv sherry wine on th' ice,' he says.
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War | Finley Peter DunneSo Ralph fell to on the bag of biscuit and the keg of water, while Duff bathed and bound up his leg as best he could.
Ralph Granger's Fortunes | William Perry Brown
British Dictionary definitions for keg
/ (kɛɡ) /
a small barrel with a capacity of between five and ten gallons
British
an aluminium container in which beer is transported and stored
Also called: keg beer beer kept in a keg: it is infused with gas and served under pressure
Origin of keg
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Other Idioms and Phrases with keg
see sitting on a powder keg.
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