Synonyms for keg
kɛgkeg

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. kegnoun

   Synonyms:
   barrel

2. kegnoun

   A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.

   Synonyms:
   barrel

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. keg, kegfulnoun

   the quantity contained in a keg

   Synonyms:
   kegful

2. kegnoun

   small cask or barrel

   Synonyms:
   kegful

Matched Categories

1. • Barrel
   • Containerful

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "keg":

   barrel, gunpowder, beer, drum, powder, bbl

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How to use keg in a sentence?

1. Former Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening:

   He understands what it is like to be the top elected official in a really challenging urban area, including the area of law enforcement, what you've got here is a powder keg in the sense that the community doesn't trust the police and the police doesn't trust the community, amidst a growing sense of poverty and inequity and hopelessness.

2. Matt Damon:

   I'm usually Matt Damon, i'm a keg-half-full kind of guy, but what I've seen from the monsters on this committee makes me want to puke... and not from beer !

3. Oleh Sych:

   This is the scariest thing - we're living on a powder keg. We don't know where else has been compromised. We can protect everything, we can teach administrators never to open emails, but the system is already infected.

4. Ben Carson:

   Somebody did something inappropriate and therefore she understood -- I believe -- that she was sitting on a powder keg and needed to do something to calm the situation down.