Inguinal hernia: Protrusion of the intestines out of the groin area. Inguinal hernia: An abdominal hernia with an external bulge in the GROIN region. It can be classified by the location of herniation. Indirect inguinal hernias occur through the internal inguinal ring.
Definition of dragoon. 1  1 : a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed mounted troops. 2  2 : cavalryman.
Drag racing (1947), is said to be from thieves' slang drag automobile (1935), perhaps ultimately from slang sense of wagon, buggy (1755), because a horse would drag it. By 1851 this was transferred to street, as in the phrase main drag (which some propose as the source of the racing sense).