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

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

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025

The R&A judged that the Irishman, who lifted the Claret Jug at Portrush in 2019, caused his ball to move during a practice swing on the 12th hole.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025

The last Englishman to lift the Claret Jug was Sir Nick Faldo, at Muirfield in 1992.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2025

Jug, jug, v.i. to utter the sound jug, as certain birds, esp. the nightingale.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various