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Meanings of clogging in English

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Fast-footwork folk dance.

Preventing movement.

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Usage of clogging in English
1
Early intervention through a youth-centred agency will prevent the system clogging up.
The Irish Times
2
Had a double bypass last year, and now I'm clogging up again.
Four to score
3
Books were stacked everywhere, clogging the already narrow artery into the house.
Fat vampire: a never coming of age story
4
Criminals are becoming obstinate; they dally forever, clogging the processes of justice.
For Love Of Evil
5
Behind them another party of fair-goers arrived, clogging up the gate path.
The irish warrior
6
The roads were mere ditches running knee deep in sticky, clogging mud.
The War Romance of the Salvation Army
7
Very quickly, everyone knows there has been another clogging in the cash-pipes.
Iron Council
8
Innocent enough it seems, but it is sadly clogging to the ships.
Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
9
Siegmund laughed, and began to rub himself free of the clogging sand.
The Trespasser
10
The ER is hard enough to navigate without nonessentials clogging the aisles.
The incumbent
11
Each breath drew in dry dust, clogging his nostrils, coating his throat.
The Tarn of Eternity
12
Your species is clogging up the world so fast... ah, never mind.
The Lightning Thief
13
Then all his languor drops off from him, like a clogging garment.
Poems of Coleridge
14
Artery-clogging potatoes and gravy, bread and butter, rhubarb pie and ice cream.
206 Bones
15
A truth as dark, rich, and artery-clogging as a Godiva soccer ball.
Wired
16
But now I can't feel anything past the thoughts clogging my head.
Ice Like Fire
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Clogging through the time
Clogging across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common