plug
Meanings
noun
- A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
- An electric socket: wall plug.
- 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 book that fails to sell.
- A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
- 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.
- 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.
verb
- To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
- To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.
- To persist or continue with something.
- To shoot (someone) with a bullet.
- To have sex with; to penetrate sexually.
- To ingest a drug rectally.
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Etymology
From Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (“peg, plug”), from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-West Germanic *plugi. Further origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic. Perhaps ultimately from the same source as Dutch plag (“cut-out sod”), itself considered to be from a substrate. Compare German Low German Plüg, Norwegian plug (“peg, wedge”, probably borrowed from Middle Low German), German Pflock (“peg”, restricted to Central German and phonetically divergent). Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti (“to strike, hew”).
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