How to pronounce “plug”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (electricity) 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.
• (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
• (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
• (US, slang) A worthless horse.
• (dated) Any worn-out or useless article.
• (dated, slang) A book that fails to sell.
• (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 spark plug.
• Ellipsis of fireplug (“fire hydrant”).
• [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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