butt plug

Noun

butt plug (plural butt plugs)

1. A sex toy designed for insertion into the anus and rectum.
   • Thus, the vibrator was born – and women started going for check-ups a lot more often. But once men caught on to why certain doctors were in such high demand, however, the party was over – and now, in states like Alabama, you can openly carry a gun but not buy a butt plug.2014 May 20, Jessica Valenti, “Buying Sex Toys Doesn't Make a Woman ‘Lady Crazy’. It Makes You Totally Normal”, in The Guardian, London, retrieved 07 Feb 2022
   • An inflatable sculpture by American artist Paul McCarthy has been vandalised – and the artist himself assaulted – after a flurry of outrage in Paris over a sculpture that is said to resemble a type of sex toy known, I am informed, as a butt plug.2014 October 20, Jonathan Jones, “Shocked by Paul McCarthy's butt plug? You obviously haven't seen his phallic Pinocchio”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms:

   anal plug

2. (rare) A rubber cap fitted to the end of the pole in pole vaulting; the pole tip.
   • Remove the butt plug of the pole and have the athlete grip 8–12 inches (about 20–30.5 cm) in excess of his or her extended reach on a pole placed vertically.2000, Joseph L. Rogers, USA Track & Field Coaching Manual, Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 208