plugs

Noun

plug (plural plugs)

1. 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.
   1. (broadly) An electric socket: wall plug.
2. 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.

   Synonyms:

   bung, dowel, stopper, stopple

3. (US, countable, uncountable) A flat oblong cake of cured and pressed tobacco; the tobacco that constitutes it.
   • Near-synonym: chewing tobacco

   Synonyms:

   chewing tobacco

4. (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
5. (US, slang) A worthless horse.
   • That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!

   Synonyms:

   bum, dobbin, hack, jade, nag

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