plugging

Verb

plug (third-person singular simple present plugs, present participle plugging, simple past and past participle plugged)

1. (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
   • He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.

   Synonyms:

   stop

2. (transitive) To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.
   • The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.
3. (informal, intransitive) To persist or continue with something.
   • Near-synonym: plug away

   Synonyms:

   plug away, keep up

4. (slang, transitive) To shoot (someone) with a bullet.
   • I am awfully glad that you kept your nerve and plugged him; it would have been better if you could have nailed him through the right shoulder, which would not have killed him...1884, H. Rider Haggard, The Witch's Head

   Synonyms:

   cap, pop, bust a cap, ventilate

5. (slang, transitive) To have sex with; to penetrate sexually.
   • Near-synonyms: peg, rail

   Synonyms:

   peg, rail, drill

6. (slang, transitive) To ingest a drug rectally.

   Synonyms:

   boof

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