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Plug

noun

1.

Blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly. Synonyms: stopper, stopple.

2.

A wad of something chewable as tobacco. Synonyms: chaw, chew, cud, quid, wad.

3.

Blatant or sensational promotion. Synonyms: ballyhoo, hoopla, hype.

4.

Electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark. Synonyms: spark plug, sparking plug.

5.

An electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection. Synonym: male plug.

6.

An upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire. Synonyms: fire hydrant, fireplug.

7.

An old or over-worked horse. Synonyms: hack, jade, nag.

verb

(past & past part. plugged; pres. part. plugging)

1.

Fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug. Synonyms: secure, stop up. "Stop up the leak"

2.

Persist in working hard. Synonym: plug away.

3.

Deliver a quick blow to. Synonym: punch.

4.

Make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote.

5.

Insert a plug into.

6.

Insert as a plug.

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"Plug" Quotes from Famous Books

... he exclaimed. "You think you're her beau, do you? Well, that's what you get. And if I see you around this here ranch, just even lookin' at her, I'll plug you again." Jimmy was romancing, with the recently discussed subject of beaux ...

— Partners of Chance • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... up his hands. "Holy Moses! I couldn't think of letting the worst plug of the lot out ...

— Blindfolded • Earle Ashley Walcott

... a lead pencil. This little luxury represents the margin of happiness for hundreds of the patients, just as a plug or package of tobacco represents the margin of happiness for thousands of others; but for seven weeks no doctor or attendant gave me one. To be sure, by reason of my somewhat exceptional persistence ...

— A Mind That Found Itself - An Autobiography • Clifford Whittingham Beers

... the first bomb, killing a sow and a litter of young pigs beside the car and breaking all the glass. Cranking failed to start the car. It was necessary, while the machine manoeuvred to get overhead again, to lift the hood of the engine, examine a spark-plug and then crank the car. He dropped a second bomb which fell behind the car and made a hole in the road. Then at last the engine started, and it took us a very short time to get out of ...

— Kings, Queens And Pawns - An American Woman at the Front • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... period—that means July, and raining in torrents—and consequently the scene, for aught discoverable, might be the Gaboon. Portrait of Joe Atlee, aetatis four years, with a villainous squint, and something that looks like a plug in the left jaw. A Skye terrier, painted, it is supposed, by himself; not to recite unframed prints of various celebrities of the ballet, in accustomed attitudes, with the Reverend Paul Bloxham blessing ...

— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever

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