chug away
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.92 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To operate continuously, especially if making a low mechanical noise.
verb
To drink down steadily in large gulps.
Example Sentences
- "Locked in such musings as her train chugged away from New York City, the fourteen-year-old suddenly felt overwhelmed with longing for her own family."
- "The crowd began to sing “Abide With Me”, troops and families sang, young and old, their hearts breaking, hankies waving as the big ship chugged away from the dock."
- "“You taking that thing?” I asked. pointing to the car that chugged away."
- "Next to the baseball bats in the garage, a spare refrigerator cooled cases of beer and soda, and a commercial-grade icemaker chugged away."
- "The mayor opened a chest freezer that chugged away in one corner and removed several cans of orange soda, one at a time, and handed them to the visitors."
- "The diesel generators chugged away."