- [countable]
a round wooden or metal container with a flat top and bottom, used especially for storing beer, like a barrel but smaller （尤指盛啤酒的）小桶 Most of our beer is packaged in 50 litre aluminium kegs. 我们的大多数啤酒都是用50升铝桶包装的。 a keg of beer 一(小)桶啤酒(奶油，鲟鱼)
- (British English) (also keg beer British and North American English)[uncountable]
(in the UK) beer served from metal containers, using gas pressure （英国，用气压出的）桶装啤酒
Word Originearly 17th cent.: variant of Scots and US dialect cag, from Old Norse kaggi.