To pull something along a surface; something tedious or tiresome; air resistance against moving objects; a form of gender expression performance.
From Old Norse draga or Old English dragan 'to draw, pull.' The slang sense of 'boring thing' comes from the feeling of being dragged down. The gender performance sense emerged in 20th-century theater and gay culture.
Drag is wonderfully expressive - from the physical effort of pulling something heavy to the cultural artform of drag performance, the word captures transformation and effort. It's fascinating how the same word that describes air resistance also describes an art form that plays with resistance to gender norms, both involving the tension between movement and opposing forces.
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