Dragged couple of girls into performing duet (6)
I believe the answer is:
tugged
'dragged' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with contact as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'couple of girls into performing duet' is the wordplay.
'couple of' says to double the letters.
'girls' becomes 'g' (this might be a standard abbreviation I've not previously seen).
'into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'performing' indicates anagramming the letters.
'g' duplicated is 'gg'.
'duet' with letters rearranged gives 'tued'.
'gg' placed into 'tued' is 'TUGGED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tugged that I've seen before include "Drawn" , "Pulled vigorously as in sporting war" , "Pulled hard" , "Pulled vigorously or with effort" , "Pulled at, perhaps forelock" .)