lug2

noun

• 1 (usually lugs) Scottish & Northern English or informal a person’s ear: I couldn’t hear what they were saying with that leather over my lugs

• 2a projection on an object by which it may be carried or fixed in place: mount the fitting directly to the lugs at each side of the box

• 3 informal, chiefly North American a loutish man: he plays a hood who, despite his fancy clothes, remains a lug