Pronunciations (4)
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/plʌɡ/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
- Southern-England
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/plɐɡ/
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
- New-Zealand
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/plʊɡ/
Pronunciation notes
- Northern-England
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plʌɡ
Noun
A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
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I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.
A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one. An electric socket: wall plug.
Usage- broadly
Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
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Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.
A flat oblong cake of cured and pressed tobacco; the tobacco that constitutes it.
Usage- US usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
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Near-synonym: chewing tobacco
He preferred a plug to snuff.
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He preferred plug to snuff.
A high, tapering silk hat.
Usage- US usage
- Slang
A worthless horse.
Usage- US usage
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That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!
Any worn-out or useless article.
Usage- Dated
A book that fails to sell.
Usage- Dated
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Stack all new and fresh, composed of the fast-selling standard books only — no old plugs or unsalable books whatever.
Many New York booksellers promoted the impression that Quaritch had sent only 'plugs' (i.e. unsaleable books).
A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
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.
Usage- Slang
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During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.
She used her televised tour of the zoo to work in another plug for conservation.
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I just wanted to […] give a plug to Disney World […]
Department store decorations up before Thanksgiving, Christmas cards all over the place, TV full of plugs for fifty-dollar toys that inner-city kids watching can never expect to receive, parents spending what they can't afford and deluging their kids with the annual orgy of materialist values […]
A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
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Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.
A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
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The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.
A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
A growth of protoplasm that closes the pore openings in the cells of certain algae.
A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
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A drug dealer.
Usage- Slang
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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 […]
A trusted connection; someone who provides illicit goods and resources.
Usage- Slang
A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
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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.
Verb
To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
Usage- Transitive
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He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.
To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.
Usage- Transitive
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The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.
Kennedy went on nationwide speaking tour to plug environmental conservation.
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He [Mike Skinner] treats the gig as an opportunity repeatedly to plug the after-party, where he will be DJing.
To persist or continue with something.
Usage- Informal
- Intransitive
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Near-synonym: plug away
Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.
To shoot (someone) with a bullet.
Usage- Slang
- Transitive
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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...
To have sex with; to penetrate sexually.
Usage- Slang
- Transitive
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Near-synonyms: peg, rail
I’d love to plug him with my strap-on.
To ingest a drug rectally.
Usage- Slang
- Transitive
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Noun
blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
a wad of something chewable as tobacco
blatant or sensational promotion
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electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark
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an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection
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an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire
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an old or over-worked horse
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Verb
fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
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plug the hole
stop up the leak
persist in working hard
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Students must plug away at this problem
deliver a quick blow to
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he punched me in the stomach
make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote
replace the center of a coin with a baser metal
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plug a nickle
insert a plug into
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plug the wall
insert as a plug
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She plugged a cork in the wine bottle