EGAVE

plug

About 5.73 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
    I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.
  2. noun An electric socket: wall plug.
  3. noun Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
    Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.
  4. noun A flat oblong cake of cured and pressed tobacco; the tobacco that constitutes it.
    He preferred a plug to snuff.
  5. noun A high, tapering silk hat.
  6. noun A worthless horse.
    That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!
  7. noun Any worn-out or useless article.
  8. noun A book that fails to sell.

Similar words

spark plug fireplug sparking plug fire hydrant stopper hack stopple stop up punch wad

Often followed by

in and the of is into flow on it

Word family

plugged plugger pluggers plugging plugs

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