rug

noun

1. A partial covering for a floor.
2. (Australia, UK)A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.

   “They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.”

   “Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug, and, in winter time, not less than one additional rug.”

   “1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia, Volume 22, page 181, My own son had a bunny rug of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny rug to suck his finger with.″”

   “1958, Arthur Hailey, John Castle. Runway Zero-Eight. Bantham Books She tucked in a rug round the woman. “How’s that?” The woman nodded gratefully.”

   “He brought with him a rug and a sheet, and lay down by the fire.”

3. (archaic, historical)A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.

   “They spin the choicest rug in Ireland. A friend of mine […] repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford rugs.”

4. (archaic, historical)A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze.
5. (obsolete, rare)A person wearing a rug.
6. A cloth covering for a horse.
7. (obsolete, rare)A dense layer of natural vegetation that precludes the growth of crops.
8. (slang)The female pubic hair.
9. A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
10. (slang)A wig; a hairpiece.

    “The intervening years have been kind to Edward Fox and John Wells, who now assume the principal roles, in allowing them to keep their full complement of hair. Mr Fox shows his gratitude by using his rug as a prop, flopping it forward, Welsh-combing it back, letting it stand up on end as if from shock, while Mr Wells is content mostly to let his limply swathe his forehead.”

11. (colloquial)A dense growth of chest hair.
12. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, ethnic, slang, slur)Ellipsis of rughead.

    “We're the motherfuckers be fightin' when the rugs [black prisoners] start wasting people around here.”

13. (slang)short form of Rugbeian

verb

1. (transitive)To cover with a rug.

   “It stands to reason that because of the difference in climate the necessity for rugging a horse in Australia would vary considerably from that in cold countries like England […]”

2. (Scotland, archaic)To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.

   ““this was a job in the auld times o'rugging and riving through the hale country[…]””

3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of rug pull