Definition of Plug

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Definition of Plug

Plug

Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.

A high, tapering silk hat.

A worthless horse.

A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.

To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

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Plug Quotations

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Josh Billings

Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.
Tim Allen

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
Thomas Friedman

I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.
Julius Erving

One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
Zakk Wylde

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
Sally Field

And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.
Steve Case

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
Andrew Greeley

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?
Kevin J. Anderson

You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.
Frederik Pohl

Plug Translations

plug in Dutch is ontstekingsbuis, bougie
plug in French is bouchon, connecteur
plug in German is Anschlussstecker {m}, einschalten, Stecker {m}
plug in Italian is spina, tappo
plug in Norwegian is tennplugg
plug in Portuguese is plugue
plug in Swedish is plugg, plomb, tapp, propp

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