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Resistance, costume, race, or choreone word for everything pulling against you.

means To pull something heavy, or the air resistance slowing a moving object, or flamboyant cross-dressing performance, depending entirely on context.

from From Old Norse draga, to pull or haul; the theatrical sense allegedly from skirts dragging across stage floors in 1800s slang.

AviationDrag opposes thrust; engineers spend fortunes shaving it.
Theater slangPossibly acronym for dressed resembling a girl, likely apocryphal.
RacingDrag race named for old main drag street sprints.
What a dragDullness as a weight you literally haul around.
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