Crossword-Solution: TUGS 4 letters, 68 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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TUGS anagram GUST, GUTS, STUG

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Barge haulers 1 answer
Liner pushers 1 answer
Liner movers 1 answer
Liner leaders 1 answer
Liner guides 1 answer
Heartstring stimuli 1 answer
Heartstring motions 1 answer
Actions on heartstrings 1 answer
Actions on heartstrings and pant legs 1 answer
Actions on shirtsleeves 1 answer
Acts of war? 1 answer
Port boats 1 answer
Barge movers 1 answer
Dockers of big ships. 1 answer
Gentle pulls 1 answer
Harbor fleet 1 answer
Harbor guiders 1 answer
Harbor towers 1 answer
Harbor workers 1 answer
Harbour haulers 1 answer
Hard-working boats 1 answer
Some harbor sights 1 answer
Water towers? 1 answer
Violent strains. 1 answer
Towers in a port 1 answer
Towboats. 1 answer
Tots' attention-getters, perhaps 1 answer
Tots give them to get attention 1 answer
They're diesel-powered 1 answer
They have a lot of pull 1 answer
Sharp pulls 1 answer
Pulls vigorously 1 answer
Pulls in a jerking manner 1 answer
Pulls gently 1 answer
Pulls (at), as heartstrings 1 answer
Port workhorses 1 answer
Port pullers 1 answer
Yanks (on) 2 answers
Strong pulls 2 answers
Pulls hard 2 answers
Pulls (on), as heartstrings 2 answers
Harbor workhorses 2 answers
Canal boats 2 answers
Harbor vessels 2 answers
Pulls on 2 answers
Pulls with effort 2 answers
Harbor haulers 2 answers
Harbor pushers 2 answers
Port pushers 2 answers
Harbor boats 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TUGS (5)

All commercial vessels (as opposed to all nonmilitary ships), which excludes tugs, fishing vessels, offshore oil rigs, etc.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
All commercial vessels (as opposed to all nonmilitary ships), which excludes tugs, fishing vessels, offshore oil rigs, etc.; also, a grouping of merchant ships by nationality or register.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
Painfully struggling against the obstacles to progression interposed by the many folds of her clumsy drapery, by her big mud-boots, and especially by her two pairs of slippers, she works her way on full awkwardly enough, but yet there is something of womanly consciousness in the very labour and effort with which she tugs and lifts the burthen of her charms.
Eothen A. W. Kinglake 2008
Before ten minutes on shore had passed, the old, familiar, unpleasant sensation of being in a hurry took possession of me! It was irresistible and all-pervading; from the movements of the crowds in the streets to the whistle of the harbor tugs, everything breathed of haste.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008

Quotes with TUGS (3)

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John Muir
Normally death came at night, taking a person in their sleep, stopping their heart or tickling them awake, leading them to the bathroom with a splitting headache before pouncing and flooding their brain with blood. It waits in alleys and metro stops. After the sun goes down plugs are pulled by white-clad guardians and death is invited into an antiseptic room. But in the country death comes, uninvited, during the day. It takes fishermen in their longboats. It grabs children by…
Louise Penny Still Life
All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.
Umberto Eco The Island of the Day Before
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 122 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).