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plug

Pronunciation: /plʌɡ/

The English word “plug” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
  2. An electric socket: wall plug.
  3. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
  4. A flat oblong cake of cured and pressed tobacco; the tobacco that constitutes it.
  5. A high, tapering silk hat.
  6. A worthless horse.
  7. Any worn-out or useless article.
  8. A book that fails to sell.
  9. A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
  10. 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.
  11. A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
  12. A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
  13. A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
  14. A growth of protoplasm that closes the pore openings in the cells of certain algae.
  15. A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
  16. A drug dealer.
  17. A trusted connection; someone who provides illicit goods and resources.
  18. A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
  19. A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.

verb

  1. To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

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…

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