as in barrel
an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages a keg of beer

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Recent Examples of keg But keeping them in the right temperature range—generally between 38 and 45°F, depending on the style—relies as much on the glass as the keg. Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025 With the Patriots, there were stories of Carroll canceling practice and packing the players onto buses with kegs on their way to bonding events. Jeff Howe, New York Times, 31 July 2025 Instead of letting that dead time go to waste, workers learned to start setting up the next packaging run, lining up kegs, and getting cans ready for the feed line. Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 29 July 2025 The blood drained entirely from the body of the hairdresser as if a vampire had tapped her like a keg. Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for keg
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Noun
  • The late, great super fan Tim McKernan must be rolling over in his barrel.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Every September and December, Broadbelt would stuff barrels with care packages, gifts and school supplies to send back to Jamaica.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To enter the distillery's cavernous aging rooms is to be surrounded by the same oloroso sherry casks that Don Fernández once used.
    Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Last spring, Bushmills released a 46-year-old single malt aged in a pair of sherry casks that was the oldest Irish single malt bottled to date (there have been older pot still whiskeys).
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The music thumped away, though at reduced volume, the bats performed their acrobatics over the pool, the hash pipe glowed, people began to yawn.
    T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Zajicek, signed in the offseason, had thus far played all his hockey in his native Czechia but looked right at home between the pipes for the B’s.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Keg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/keg. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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