Definitions for plug

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Spelling: [pluhg]

IPA: /plʌg/

Plug is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in plug (glpu).

Definitions for plug

noun

1. a piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
2. a core or interior segment taken from a larger matrix.
3. Electricity. a device to which may be attached the conductors of a cord and which by insertion in a jack, or screwing into a receptacle, establishes contact.
4. spark plug (def 1).
5. a fireplug or hydrant.
6. a cake of pressed tobacco.
7. a piece of tobacco cut off for chewing.
8. Informal. the favorable mention of something, as in a lecture, radio show, etc.; advertisement; recommendation:
9. Angling. an artificial lure made of wood, plastic, or metal, and fitted with one or more gang hooks, used chiefly in casting.
10. Geology. neck (def 14).
11. Slang. a worn-out or inferior horse.
12. Informal. a shopworn or unsalable article.
13. a small piece of sod used especially for seeding a lawn.
14. a patch of scalp with viable hair follicles that is used as a graft for a bald part of the head. Compare hair transplant.
15. Slang. punch1 (def 1).
16. Metalworking. a mandrel on which tubes are formed. a punch on which a cup is drawn. a protrusion on a forging die for forming a recess in the work. a false bottom on a die.
17. Also called dook. a small piece of wood inserted into masonry as a hold for a nail.
18. Masonry. See under plug and feathers.
19. Also called plug hat. a man's tall silk hat.
20. an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.

Idioms

1. pull the plug on, Informal. to discontinue or terminate: to disconnect life-sustaining equipment from (a moribund patient).

Verb phrases

1. plug in, to connect to an electrical power source: Informal. to add or include; incorporate:
2. plug into, to connect or become connected by or as if by means of a plug: Informal. to feel an affinity for; like; understand:
3. plug up, to become plugged:

verb (used with object)

1. to stop or fill with or as if with a plug (often followed by up):
2. to insert or drive a plug into.
3. to secure with or as if with a plug.
4. to insert (something) as a plug.
5. to remove a core or a small plug-shaped piece from.
6. to remove the center of (a coin) and replace it with a baser metal:
7. Informal. to mention (something) favorably, as in a lecture, radio show, etc.:
8. Slang. to punch with the fist.
9. Slang. to shoot or strike with a bullet.

verb (used without object)

1. to work with stubborn persistence (often followed by along or away):
2. Informal. to publicize insistently:
3. Slang. to shoot or fire shots.

Origin of plug

1620-30; Dutch; cognate with German Pflock

Examples for plug

She recalls a particularly traumatic conversation with a HBO executive soon after the plug was pulled on The Comeback.

I managed to plug three of them and I guess they thought I was a dozen men.

His other feats were the introduction of the pipe into England and the plug into Ireland.

And I remember what a plug we thought my room-mate was because he wouldn't come with us.

How long did you see Hello Ladies going prior to HBO pulling the plug?

Where two anvils were to be had, the cannonade was much brisker, as then a plug was not needed.

And then I reach into my pocket and plug in another quarter.

The ordinary "plug hat" was known to these people, but not an opera hat.

TLC promptly pulled the plug on the hit series and Shannon embarked on a press tour denying the claims.

Just plug it into any TV and get watching—no need to schedule an installation.