plug
/plʌɡ/ noun B1- 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.
- An electric socket: wall plug.
- 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.
- A flat oblong cake of cured and pressed tobacco; the tobacco that constitutes it. · Near-synonym: chewing tobacco· He preferred a plug to snuff.
- A high, tapering silk hat.
- A worthless horse. · That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!
- Any worn-out or useless article.
- A book that fails to sell.
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