jug

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Weir met Garcia on New Year’s Eve, 1963, at a Palo Alto music store, and soon formed the jug band Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions with Garcia and future Dead bandmate Ron “Pigpen” McKernan.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2026

The result has been a week that, in his words, had everything but his second Claret Jug.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2025

As Scottie Scheffler steamrolled his way to the Claret Jug, there was another name which kept being mentioned in the discourse surrounding his impending Open victory.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2025

It felt an ominous warning to anyone with aspirations of halting Scheffler's seeming procession towards the Claret Jug.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025

One man said something rude to Jug about her erring Biddy with the carroty poll, which sent the hag into a fury.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis