plug

Meanings

Noun

• A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
• Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
• A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
• A high, tapering silk hat.
• A worthless horse.
• Any worn-out or useless article.
• A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
• A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features one or more of these.
• A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
• A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
• A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
• A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
• A drug dealer.
• A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.

Verb

• To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
• To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
• To persist or continue with something.
• To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
• To have sex with, penetrate sexually.

Related

Similar words

• bust a cap, pop, ventilate

Origin

• , German Pflock. Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti.