tugger

tugger
 n.— «Mr. Mark responded by cupping his hand and sort of waggling it up and down, in the internationally recognised gesture often referred to as “the tugger.”» —“All at sea on a wave of vulgarity” by Jane Clifton Stuff.co.nz (New Zealand) Aug. 2, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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