Usually means: Pulling something with intermittent force.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. tugging: Merriam-Webster
  2. tugging: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tugging: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tugging: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tugging, tugging: Wordnik
  6. tugging: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tugging: Wiktionary
  8. tugging: Dictionary.com
  9. tugging: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Tugging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Tugging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. tugging: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. tugging: FreeDictionary.org
  14. tugging: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tugging: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tugging: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tugging: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tugging: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tugging)

noun:  The action of something that tugs; a pull.

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