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tow

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Verb

  1. To pull something behind one, such as by using a line, chain, or tongue.
  2. To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.

Noun

  1. The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
  2. Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
  3. Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
  4. A rope or cable used in towing.
  5. A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.
  6. An untwisted bundle of fibres such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.
  7. The short, coarse, less desirable fibres separated by hackling from the finer longer fibres (line).
  8. Initialism of tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided: a kind of antitank missile.

Phrase

  1. Initialism of The One with ... or The One Where ...: used to refer to episodes of the American television sitcom Friends.

Proper noun

  1. A surname.

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