keg
pronunciation
How to pronounce keg in British English:
UK [keg]
How to pronounce keg in American English:
US [kɛɡ]
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- Noun:
- the quantity contained in a keg
- small cask or barrel
Word Origin
- keg (n.)
- 1630s, earlier kag (mid-15c.), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse kaggi "keg, cask," of unknown origin. Cognate with Swedish kagge, Norwegian kagg. Specific sense of "barrel of beer" is from 1945. U.S. student slang kegger "party featuring a keg of beer" attested by 1969.
Example
- 1. And one day the powder keg may explode .
- 2. Here is keg lant with our story .
- 3. Yet the country is also often considered a powder keg .
- 4. Some time ago four teenage boys and a ten-year-old stole a keg of beer .
- 5. The residents of kiev didn 't even know they lived on a " powder keg " .