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Noun

1. A piece of solid material fitting tightly into a hole and blocking it up.

somewhere in the pipes there is a plug of ice blocking the flow

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2. A circular piece of metal, rubber, or plastic used to stop the plughole of a bath or basin and keep the water in it.

My bath in Japan had a rubber ball instead of a plug.

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3. A baby's dummy.
4. A mass of solidified lava filling the neck of a volcano.

For the first time in nearly a half century, puffins are returning to Ailsa Craig, a plug of volcanic rock off the west coast of Scotland.

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5. (in gardening) a young plant or clump of grass with a small mass of soil protecting its roots, for planting out.

Usually buy these as 50p plugs (baby plants) and grow them on.

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6. A device for making an electrical connection between an appliance and the mains, consisting of an insulated casing with metal pins that fit into holes in a socket.

And he takes the plug and he plugs it into the generator.

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7. A socket into which an electric plug can be fitted.

They are often placed behind light fittings or plugs.

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8. short for spark plug

This tells me that both plugs are fired on each cylinder at the same time, but the plugs on each cylinder are fired by two different coils.

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9. A piece of publicity promoting a product, event, or establishment.

‘No free plugs in my paper,’ I was saying to myself in my head.

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10. A piece of tobacco cut from a larger cake for chewing.

The whole country divided on the issue of a few plugs of tobacco?

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11. (also plug tobacco) Tobacco in large cakes designed to be cut for chewing.

By 1870 Cincinnati was the number one producer in the United States of an eclectic array of goods: carriages, glycerin, wine, whiskey, plug tobacco, and coffins.

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12. A lure with one or more hooks attached.

Carrying plugs festooned with treble hooks is a price that is inevitably paid by the penitent plug fisherman.

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13. short for fireplug
14. A tired or old horse.

He was a hopeless plug and never ran in the money.

Verb (plugs, plugging, plugged)

1. Block or fill in (a hole or cavity)

She plugged the drain and waited for clean water to fill up the bath.

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2. Insert (something) into an opening so as to fill it.

the baby plugged his thumb into his mouth

3. Mention (a product, event, or establishment) publicly in order to promote it.

during the show he plugged his new record

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4. Shoot or hit (someone or something)

If anyone plugs him, it'd ‘be appreciated and rewarded’.

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Plug away

1. Proceed steadily and laboriously with a journey or task.

during the years of poverty, he plugged away at his writing

Plug in

1. (plug something in, plug in something) Connect an electrical appliance to the mains by inserting a plug in a socket.

Since then, I always check for water on the floor when I plug appliances in.

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Plug into

1. (of an electrical appliance) be connected to another appliance by a lead inserted in a socket.

These CPUs plugged into a socket called Socket 754.

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2. (plug something into) Connect an electrical appliance by a lead to another appliance or to a socket.

grab a spare keyboard and plug it into your computer

3. Gain or have access to a system of computerized information.

Will it be possible for Radio users to plug into a non-Userland scripting system?

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4. Become knowledgeable about and involved with.

the workshops are a great way to plug into radical ideas and radical groups

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Origin

1. Early 17th century from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German plugge, of unknown ultimate origin.

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