Meaning of plug | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
2. An electric socket: wall plug.
   broadly
3. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
4. A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
   US
5. A high, tapering silk hat.
   US, slang
6. A worthless horse.
   US, slang
7. Any worn-out or useless article.
   dated
8. A book that fails to sell.
   dated, slang
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.
    slang
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.
    slang
17. A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
18. A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
19. Ellipsis of spark plug.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
20. Ellipsis of fireplug (“fire hydrant”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Equivalents

Examples

“I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.”

“Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.”

“He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw.”

“That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!”

“Stack all new and fresh, composed of the fast-selling standard books only — no old plugs or unsalable books whatever.”

“Many New York booksellers promoted the impression that Quaritch had sent only 'plugs' (i.e. unsaleable books).”

“During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.”

“She used her televised tour of the zoo to work in another plug for conservation.”

“Department store decorations up before Thanksgiving, Christmas cards all over the place, TV full of plugs for fifty-dollar toys that inner-city kids watching can never expect to receive, parents spending what they can't afford and deluging their kids with the annual orgy of materialist values […]”

“Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.”

“The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.”

“He saw me catch a trap and leave the house of a drug dealer. That's why he targeted me. He could have easily blown my ass off right then and there for lying, but for some reason he didn't. He just left. I biked back to my plug's spot and told him […]”

“Add front and aft closures to the fuselage midsection. Addition or subtraction of fuselage plugs, to a maximum of five rows, conveniently distributed on each side of wing, is possible.”

“I changed the plugs and the coil packs.”

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