Lug

Lug or LUG may refer to:

Places

• Lug (Tomislavgrad), a Croatian village in Herzegovina
• Lug, Bilje, a settlement in Croatian Baranja
• Lug, Germany, a municipality in Germany
• Ług, Łódź Voivodeship, a village in Poland
• Lug (Beočin), a village in Serbia

Transportation

• Lug (bicycle part), steel tubing and sockets of a bicycle
• Lugano Airport (IATA Airport Code)
• Lug sail is a four sided sail bent to a yard which is slung at about a third of its length from forward. It gives its name to the sailing craft lugger.
• Lugging, when an internal combustion engine is run at overly low RPMs for the load being applied to it, potentially damaging the engine in the process.

Handles or connectors

• Lug (knob), handles are a kind of flattened knob attached to the side of pottery
• Lug (electrical connector), a bolt on an enclosure tied to an electric potential within the enclosure, supporting the connection of a cable
• Lug, the protrusion from the case of a wristwatch to which the strap or bracelet attaches, usually by means of spring pins that bridge pairs of lugs at the upper and lower sides of a watch's case.
• Lug, part of a drum used in conjunction with tension rods and counter hoops to tension the drum head in relation to the shell.

Acronyms

• Last Unicorn Games, games publisher later absorbed by Wizards of the Coast
• Level Up! Games Or Level Up! Games company
• Lesbian until graduation, slang term
• Linux User Group, private organization providing support for Linux users
• Law of Universal Gravitation, Isaac Newton's equations for gravity
• Læger Uden Grænser, Danish brand of Doctors without borders / Médecins Sans Frontières

Other uses

• Lug (unit) is a unit of measure for linear distance equal to a Rod or 1⁄320 of a statute mile
• Lug (packaging), a type of container used for agricultural produce
• Lugh, an ancient god in Irish mythology