Définition "tug" dans le dictionnaire Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus

tug (tugs plural & 3rd person present) (tugging present participle) (tugged past tense & past participle )

1 verb If you tug something or tug at it, you give it a quick and usually strong pull.
A little boy came running up and tugged at his sleeve excitedly... V at n

2 n-count A tug or a tug boat is a small powerful boat which pulls large ships, usually when they come into a port.

tug-of-love
Journalists sometimes use tug-of-love to refer to a situation in which the parents of a child are divorced and one of the parents tries to get the child from the other, for example by taking him or her illegally.
(BRIT)  n-sing
A mother yesterday won a tug-of-love battle for custody of her twin daughters.

tug-of-war (tugs-of-war plural ), tug of war

1 n-var A tug-of-war is a sports event in which two teams test their strength by pulling against each other on opposite ends of a rope.

2 n-var You can use tug-of-war to refer to a situation in which two people or groups both want the same thing and are fairly equally matched in their struggle to get it.
Chelsea and Aston Villa were involved in a tug of war for Liverpool's Ray Houghton last night.