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is lugging
  • present progressive of lug (3rd person singular).

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"This looting doesn’t involve smashed display cases, it doesn’t have a mob scooping up handbags. And no one is lugging out big-screen TVs," Bruce said on "Fox News Primetime."

From Fox News • Dec. 7, 2021

Some days her youngest daughter is lugging her cello.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2016

He's about to jump on the train and is lugging a holdall, a Daunt Books tote, a guitar case patched up with duct tape, so we get straight to it.

From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2013

One is lugging a framed mirror, the other a painting.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2011

He is lugging along a farm or two, some town lots, and houses, and a lot of beautifully engraved paper, bank stock and railroad bonds and other bonds.

From Quiet Talks on Service by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)