plugs

noun

(electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.

(loosely) An electric socket: wall plug.

Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.

(US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.

(US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.

(US, slang) A worthless horse.

(construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.

(slang) 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.

(geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.

(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.

(horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.

A growth of protoplasm that closes the pore openings in the cells of certain algae.

(jewelry) A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.

(slang) A drug dealer.

A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.

(aviation) A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.

Ellipsis of fireplug (“fire hydrant”). [A fire hydrant.]

Ellipsis of spark plug. [The part of some internal combustion engines which forms a high-voltage electric spark which ignites the fuel-air mixture to begin the power stroke. (Petrol engines have spark plugs. Diesel engines do not have them because the heat from their high compression ratios supplies the ignition.)]

(dated) Any worn-out or useless article.

(dated, slang) A book that fails to sell.

verb

(transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

(transitive) To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.

(intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.

(transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a bullet.

(transitive, slang) To have sex with; to penetrate sexually.

(transitive, slang) To ingest a drug rectally.

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