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drag

(disambiguation)

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Drag may refer to:

Computing

  • In computing, to drag a mouse's button and hold it down while moving the mouse, used in drag-and-drop

Culture

  • Drag (clothing), slang for any costume, but particularly for clothes of one gender worn by the opposite gender
  • In music, to drag is to play slower than the indicated tempo
  • Drag (percussion), in drumming, one of the 26 rudiments, consisting of two light strokes with one hand followed by a strong stroke with the opposite hand
  • DRAG* (band), UK punk band [1]
  • Drag (band), a band from Australia
  • Drag (film), a 1929 film
  • Drag (album), a 1997 album by kd lang with a smoking motif
  • "Drag" (song), a track by Placebo on their album Meds
  • Drag (song), a song by Hole off their EP Malibu
  • A "Drag" is some event or action that is the opposite of exciting. e.g.-"That funeral was such a drag."
  • "Drag" can refer to inhaling off a cigarette (usually tobacco). (ex. Let me get a drag off your cigarette.)

Objects

  • A type of carriage.
  • A heavy type of harrow (tool), used to break up ground in agriculture
  • Police drag, a small dredge used to recover objects or bodies lost in shallow water

Places

  • Drag, Norway, a village in Tysfjord municipality, Nordland, Norway

Physics, Engineering

  • Drag (physics), a combination of aerodynamic or hydrodynamic forces which tends to reduce speed

Sports

  • Drag racing, a form of automobile racing

Other

  • Dinitrogenase reductase activating glycohydrolase, an enzyme used in biochemistry

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