- a piece of thick material like a small carpet that is used for covering or decorating part of a floor
- a hearth rug (= in front of a fireplace)
- an oriental rug
- a sheepskin rug
- A Persian rug covered the polished floor.
- There were several brightly coloured rugs scattered around.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hearth
- oriental
- Persian
- …
- make
- weave
- cover something
- (British English) a piece of thick warm material, like a blanket, that is used for wrapping around your legs to keep warm
- a travel rug
- a tartan rug
- (informal, humorous) a toupee (= a small section of artificial hair, worn by a man to cover an area of his head where hair no longer grows)
Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting a type of coarse woollen cloth): probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian dialect rugga ‘coverlet’, Swedish rugg ‘ruffled hair’; related to rag ‘piece of cloth’. The sense ‘small carpet’ dates from the early 19th cent.
Idioms
See rug in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarypull the rug (out) from under somebody’s feet
- (informal) to take help or support away from somebody suddenly
sweep something under the rug (North American English)
(also sweep something under the carpet British and North American English)
- to try to stop people from finding out about something wrong, illegal, embarrassing, etc. that has happened or that you have done
- An earlier report, implicating the government, had been conveniently swept under the rug.
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