Drag (music genre) definition

(1) The act of dragging (pulling with force)

"The drag up the hill exhausted him"

(2) A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)

"He took a puff on his pipe"

"He took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly"

(3) Clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)

"He went to the party dressed in drag"

"The waitresses looked like missionaries in drag"

(4) Something tedious and boring

"Peeling potatoes is a drag"

(5) Something that slows or delays progress

"Taxation is a drag on the economy"

"Too many laws are a drag on the use of new land"

(6) The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

(7) Proceed for an extended period of time

"The speech dragged on for two hours"

(8) Persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting

"He dragged me away from the television set"

(9) Suck in or take (air)

"Draw a deep breath"

"Draw on a cigarette"

(10) Search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

(11) Pull, as against a resistance

"He dragged the big suitcase behind him"

"These worries were dragging at him"

(12) Draw slowly or heavily

"Haul stones"

"Haul nets"

(13) Walk without lifting the feet

(14) To lag or linger behind

"But in so many other areas we still are dragging"

(15) Move slowly and as if with great effort

(16) Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action

"They were swept up by the events"

"Don't drag me into this business"