keg
noun/keɡ/
/keɡ/
- [countable] a round wooden or metal container with a flat top and bottom, used especially for storing beer, like a barrel but smaller
- Most of our beer is packaged in 50 litre aluminium kegs.
- a keg of beer
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- (British English) (also keg beer British and North American English)[uncountable] (in the UK) beer served from metal containers, using gas pressure
Word Originearly 17th cent.: variant of Scots and US dialect cag, from Old Norse kaggi.
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