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- 1 A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
"I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again."
- 2 an old or over-worked horse wordnet
- 3 A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.; An electric socket: wall plug. broadly
- 4 an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire wordnet
- 5 Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
"Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain."
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- 6 blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly wordnet
- 7 A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. US
"He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw."
- 8 an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection wordnet
- 9 A high, tapering silk hat. US, slang
- 10 electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark wordnet
- 11 A worthless horse. US, slang
"That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!"
- 12 blatant or sensational promotion wordnet
- 13 Any worn-out or useless article. dated
- 14 a wad of something chewable as tobacco wordnet
- 15 A book that fails to sell. dated, slang
"Stack all new and fresh, composed of the fast-selling standard books only — no old plugs or unsalable books whatever."
- 16 A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
- 17 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. slang
"During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel."
- 18 A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
"Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash."
- 19 A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
"The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper."
- 20 A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
- 21 A growth of protoplasm that closes the pore openings in the cells of certain algae.
- 22 A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
- 23 A drug dealer. slang
"He saw me catch a trap and leave the house of a drug dealer. That's why he targeted me. He could have easily blown my ass off right then and there for lying, but for some reason he didn't. He just left. I biked back to my plug's spot and told him […]"
- 24 A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
- 25 A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
"Add front and aft closures to the fuselage midsection. Addition or subtraction of fuselage plugs, to a maximum of five rows, conveniently distributed on each side of wing, is possible."
- 26 Ellipsis of spark plug. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"I changed the plugs and the coil packs."
- 27 Ellipsis of fireplug (“fire hydrant”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 1 To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole. transitive
"He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk."
- 2 insert as a plug wordnet
- 3 To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it. transitive
"The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome."
- 4 insert a plug into wordnet
- 5 To persist or continue with something. informal, intransitive
"Near-synonym: plug away"
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- 6 replace the center of a coin with a baser metal wordnet
- 7 To shoot (someone) with a bullet. slang, transitive
"1884, H. Rider Haggard, The Witch's Head I am awfully glad that you kept your nerve and plugged him; it would have been better if you could have nailed him through the right shoulder, which would not have killed him..."
- 8 persist in working hard wordnet
- 9 To have sex with; to penetrate sexually. slang, transitive
"Near-synonyms: peg, rail"
- 10 make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote wordnet
- 11 To ingest a drug rectally. slang, transitive
- 12 deliver a quick blow to wordnet
- 13 fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug wordnet
Etymology
From Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (“peg, plug”), from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-West Germanic *plugi. Further origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic. Perhaps ultimately from the same source as Dutch plag (“cut-out sod”), itself considered to be from a substrate. Compare German Low German Plüg, Norwegian plug (“peg, wedge”, probably borrowed from Middle Low German), German Pflock (“peg”, restricted to Central German and phonetically divergent). Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti (“to strike, hew”).
From Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (“peg, plug”), from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-West Germanic *plugi. Further origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic. Perhaps ultimately from the same source as Dutch plag (“cut-out sod”), itself considered to be from a substrate. Compare German Low German Plüg, Norwegian plug (“peg, wedge”, probably borrowed from Middle Low German), German Pflock (“peg”, restricted to Central German and phonetically divergent). Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti (“to strike, hew”).
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