TUG

[noun] [C]Feeling a tug at his sleeve, he turned to see Joe beside him.(UK informal) Tug-of-love is used, esp. in newspapers, to describe a situation in which one of the separated parents of a child takes care of the child but the other parent claims that right, or a situation in which a child is being taken care of by people other than the child's parents but the parents claim that right.a tug-of-love storyA tug-of-war is a type of sport in which two teams show their strength by pulling against each other at the opposite ends of a rope, and each team tries to pull the other over a line on the ground.(figurative) Prices have been caught in a tug-of-war, pulled in one direction by strong demand and in the opposite direction by high output.