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chug | null |

As nouns the difference between chug and null

is that chug is a dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine or chug can be a dog; a cross between a pug and a chihuahua or chug can be (pejorative|racial slur) a person of native american descent while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb chug

is to make dull explosive sounds or chug can be (transitive|uk slang|derogatory) to solicit charitable donations on the street, particularly in a persistent manner.

chug

English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeia

Noun

(en noun)
  • A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine.
  • A large gulp of drink.
  • He drank his beer in three chugs .
  • A homemade Cuban boat, built to carry emigrants to the USA, and often abandoned upon arrival.
  • Verb

  • To make dull explosive sounds.
  • To move or travel whilst making such sounds.
  • We were chugging along a back road when the engine cut out.
  • (slang) to drink a large amount (especially of beer) in a single action; to chugalug.
  • I can't believe he chugged three beers.
    Synonyms
    * (drink) See also

    Etymology 2

    blend of chihuahua and pug

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dog; a cross between a pug and a chihuahua.
  • Etymology 3

    blend of charity and mug

    Verb

  • (transitive, UK slang, derogatory) To solicit charitable donations on the street, particularly in a persistent manner.
  • I got chugged in the town centre today.

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative, racial slur) A person of Native American descent.
  • English onomatopoeias

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----