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plug

/plʌɡ/

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What does plug mean?

noun

  1. A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
  2. An electric socket: wall plug.
  3. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
More meanings (24)

noun

  1. A flat oblong cake of cured and pressed tobacco; the tobacco that constitutes it.
  2. (slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
  3. (slang) A worthless horse.
  4. A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
  5. (slang) A promotion (act of promoting) of a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing, concept, etc, for example during an interview or a commercial.
  6. A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
  7. A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
  8. A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
  9. A growth of protoplasm that closes the pore openings in the cells of certain algae.
  10. A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
  11. (slang) A drug dealer.
  12. (slang) A trusted connection; someone who provides illicit goods and resources.
  13. A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
  14. A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
  15. Ellipsis of spark plug.
  16. Ellipsis of fireplug (“fire hydrant”).
  17. (dated) Any worn-out or useless article.
  18. (dated, slang) A book that fails to sell.

verb

  1. To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
  2. To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.
  3. (informal) To persist or continue with something.
  4. (slang) To shoot (someone) with a bullet.
  5. (slang) To have sex with; to penetrate sexually.
  6. (slang) To ingest a drug rectally.
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“I’ve not time to stand here while you talk,” said Mr. Pappleworth, and he pushed the plug into the tube.
D. H. (David Herbert) LawrenceSons and LoversProject Gutenberg ebook #217
Some warm September day I would pull the plug from the barrel and the sorghum would fairly squirt into my bucket.
Ralph Albert ParletteThe University of Hard KnocksProject Gutenberg ebook #455
More book examples (3)
Then a thick plug of the same green material of which the partitions are formed closes the home and keeps out marauders.
Jean-Henri FabreBramble-Bees and OthersTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3421
The Boxer bullet superseded the boxwood plug by the use of a piece of burnt clay, which was less expensive and equally serviceable.
Samuel White, Sir BakerWild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #3657
Later, however, he discovered that it is possible to study, even at Oxford, if you plug your ears with cotton-wool soaked in glycerine.
Thomas WrightThe Life of Sir Richard BurtonProject Gutenberg ebook #4315