plug

Plural: plugs

Noun

• blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
• a wad of something chewable as tobacco
• blatant or sensational promotion
• electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark
• an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection
• an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire
• an old or over-worked horse
• A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
• A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
• An electric socket: wall plug.
• Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
• A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
• A high, tapering silk hat.
• A worthless horse.
• Any worn-out or useless article.
• A book that fails to sell.
• 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.
• A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
• A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
• 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.
• A drug dealer.
• A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
• A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
• Ellipsis of fireplug (“fire hydrant”).

Verb

Verb Forms: plugged, plugging, plugs

• To seal or stop a hole; to promote something persistently.
• fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
  • "plug the hole"
• persist in working hard
  • "Students must plug away at this problem"
• deliver a quick blow to
• make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote
• insert a plug into
  • "plug the wall"
• insert as a plug
  • "She plugged a cork in the wine bottle"
• To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
• To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.
• To persist or continue with something.
• To shoot (someone) with a bullet.
• To have sex with; to penetrate sexually.
• To ingest a drug rectally.

Examples

• During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.
• He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.
• He had to PLUG the gap in his rack by trading tiles, hoping for better luck.
• He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw.
• I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.
• I’d love to plug him with my strap-on.
• Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.
• Kennedy went on nationwide speaking tour to plug environmental conservation.
• Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.
• Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.
• She used her televised tour of the zoo to work in another plug for conservation.
• That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!
• The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.
• The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.

Synonyms

ballyhoo, chaw, chew, cud, fire hydrant, fireplug, hack, hoopla, hype, jade, male plug, nag, plug away, punch, quid, secure, spark plug, sparking plug, stop up, stopper, stopple, wad, block, boof, bum, bung, bust a cap, cap#Verb, copulate with, dobbin, dowel, drill, earspool, keep up, peg, persevere, pin, plug, pop, pop#Verb, pound, sleep with, soldier on, stop, ventilate, 🔌

Related Words

bunghole, lid, outlet, plughole

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