plug

Meaning

1. A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
2. A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
3. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
4. A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
5. (slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
6. (slang) A worthless horse.
7. Any worn-out or useless article.
8. (slang) A book that fails to sell.
9. A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
10. (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.
11. A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
12. A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
13. A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
14. A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
15. (slang) A drug dealer.
16. A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
17. A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.

stopper

male connector

electric outlet

plug connector

male plug

plug adapter

plug-hat

power plug

power socket

stopped up

electric socket

wax light

commercial message

being filled

blank plug

electrical plug

advertizement

patchplug

be plugged

daisy-chain

switch-plug

fill a hole

two-pin plug

end plug

end fitting

advertorial

drainplug

shoulder in

plug contact

fire-plug

jackplug

male contact

core pin

core rod

electrical connector

power outlet

attachment plug

plug braking

connector pin

core bar

seal lock

pull socket

receptacle plug

electrical socket

electric power socket

drag puff

connector plug

dam up

dowel pin

electric plug

outfall

pipe plug

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/plʌɡ/

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: 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”).