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plug

UK/plʊɡ/ US/plʌɡ/ fairly common informal slang us
noun (7) verb (4)

noun

1.

blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly

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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 old or over-worked horse

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verb

1.

fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug

  • “plug the hole”
  • “stop up the leak”
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2.

persist in working hard

  • “Students must plug away at this problem”
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3.

deliver a quick blow to

  • “he punched me in the stomach”
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4.

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

Origin

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”).

Phrases

  • anal plug
  • banana plug
  • breech plug
  • bridge plug
  • butt plug
  • carom plug
  • chair plug
  • core plug
  • plug and chug
  • plug and play
  • plug and pray
  • plug away

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