jug

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Weir met Garcia on New Year’s Eve, 1963, at a Palo Alto music store, and soon formed the jug band Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions with Garcia and future Dead bandmate Ron “Pigpen” McKernan.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2026

And, as he said, his Portrush experience gave him pretty much all he wanted, bar the Claret Jug.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2025

And should he do so, he would also become only the second player to win the Claret Jug while topping the world rankings, after Woods, who did it three times.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025

Harman was dubbed "the butcher of Hoylake" during his relentless march to the Claret Jug at Royal Liverpool two years ago as a result of his propensity to slay and eat big game.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025

Old Jug sat crooning in the wintry sun, her eyes twinkling like beads from under a tangle of sandy elf-locks and flopping cap, her favourite dudheen between her lips.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis