jughandle

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jughandle

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From jug + handle.

noun jughandles

  1. The handle of a jug. Informants said that this gulch was so named because the old road made a turn shaped like a jughandle in order to get down into the gulch and across it.
  2. US A ramp or slip road on the right-hand side of the road, used for making left turns. A jughandle is the Jersey way of making a left turn without creating gridlock...
  3. in plural, slang A large ear. A waiter appeared with ears that stuck out far enough to have held ten pens instead of just the one, […] He nodded and walked away, shouting our order to the old guy who, going by the size of the jug handles each side of his head, must have been his dad.

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noun handle of a jug

Tiếng Việtquai bình

noun ramp or slip road

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"jughandle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/jughandle. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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jughandle. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/jughandle

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"jughandle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/jughandle.

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@misc{jughandle_2026,
  title = {jughandle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/jughandle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}