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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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... to pay only about a million of that sum, or the premium on it, they refused. But far worse was the experience of the general public. When they frantically besieged the banks for their money, the bank officials filled the banks with heavily armed guards and plug-uglies with orders to fire on the crowd in ...

— History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I - Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times • Myers Gustavus

... starts forth "a-cooning," may he be observed with something swelling out his coat-pockets, seemingly carried with circumspection. Were they at such times searched, they would be found to contain a gourd of corn whisky, and beside it a plug of tobacco. But no one searches them; no one can guess at their contents—except Phoebe. To her the little matter of commissariat has necessarily been made known, by repeated drafts on her meat-safe, and calls upon her culinary ...

— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid

... the good stuff, this is the stuff. Stuff several pounds of this sublime stuff into an inch pipe ... plug up both ends, insert a cap with a fuse attached, place this in the immediate neighborhood of a lot of rich loafers ... and light the fuse. A most cheerful and gratifying ...

— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

... rise like a tide in the heart. There must be a taking by the faithful use of what we possess. 'To him that hath shall be given.' There must be a taking by careful avoidance of what would hinder. In the winter weather the water supply sometimes fails in a house. Why? Because there is a plug of ice in the service-pipe. Some of us have a plug of ice, and so ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI • Alexander Maclaren

... consisting of a company of the 60th Rifles. Mr. Greener having failed to bring a target, to test the superior penetrating power of his balls, the ordinary Artillery target was used. Mr. Greener's ball had a conical plug of lead in the hollow, for the purpose of producing the expansion when driven home by the force of the powder. After firing several rounds at two hundred yards, only one ball of Mr. Greener's, which ...

— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray

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