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plug
- /plʌɡ/ US, UK, Southern England
- /plɐɡ/ Australia, New Zealand
- /plʊɡ/ Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌɡ
Where it comes from
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”).
noun plugs
- 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.
- An electric socket: wall plug.
- 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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A flat oblong cake of cured and pressed tobacco; the tobacco that constitutes it.
Near-synonym: chewing tobacco
Similar: chewing tobacco
- A high, tapering silk hat.
- A worthless horse. That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!
- Any worn-out or useless article.
- A book that fails to sell. Stack all new and fresh, composed of the fast-selling standard books only — no old plugs or unsalable books whatever.
- 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. During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
Similar: earspool
- A drug dealer. 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.
- A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
- 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.
- Ellipsis of spark plug I changed the plugs and the coil packs.
- Ellipsis of fireplug (“fire hydrant”).
verb plugs · plugging · plugged
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To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.
Similar: stop
- To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it. The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.
- To persist or continue with something. Near-synonym: plug away
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To shoot (someone) with a bullet.
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...
Similar: cap, pop, bust a cap, ventilate
- To have sex with; to penetrate sexually. Near-synonyms: peg, rail
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To ingest a drug rectally.
Similar: boof
Similar: soldier on, pound, sleep with, 🔌
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: spark plug, fireplug, sparking plug, fire hydrant, stopper, hack, stopple, stop up, punch, wad, nag, quid, jade, hype, ballyhoo, chew
verb
Similar: soldier on, pound, sleep with, 🔌
Translations
Every language
noun electric connecting device
| Español | enchufe, clavija, plug, plag, plog, ploga |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 플러그 peulleogeu |
| 日本語 | プラグ puragu |
| 中文 | 插頭 /插头 chātóu |
| Kiswahili | plagi |
| Português | plugue |
| Français | fiche |
| Deutsch | Stecker |
| Italiano | spina |
| Ελληνικά | φις fis |
| Română | fișă, ștecăr, pin |
| Русский | ште́псельная ви́лка štɛ́pselʹnaja vílka, ште́псель štɛ́pselʹ, ви́лка vílka, ште́кер štɛ́ker |
| Tiếng Việt | phích, đầu cắm, đầu cắm điện |
| العربية | قَابِس qābis, فِيشَة fīša |
| עברית | תֶּקַע téka' |
noun hole filler
| Español | tapón |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 마개 magae |
| 日本語 | 栓 sen |
| 中文 | 塞子 sāizi |
| Kiswahili | kizibo |
| Português | tampão |
| Français | bouchon |
| Deutsch | Stöpsel, Stopfen, Pfropfen, Pfropf, Spund, Zapfen |
| Italiano | tappo |
| Русский | про́бка próbka, заты́чка zatýčka |
| العربية | بُوجِيه būjīh, دِسَام disām, سِدَاد sidād, سِدَادَة sidāda, سِطَام siṭām, صِمّة ṣimma |
verb to stop with a plug
| Español | tapar, taponar, taponear, sellar |
|---|---|
| Français | boucher, fermer, bourrer |
| Română | astupa, închide, băga (un dop, o fișă) |
| Русский | затыка́ть zatykátʹ, заткну́ть zatknútʹ, заку́поривать zakúporivatʹ, заку́порить zakúporitʹ |
verb to blatantly mention
| Español | promocionar |
|---|---|
| Français | faire la pub, faire la promo |
| Deutsch | Schleichwerbung machen |
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