• Czech: zástrčka
• Finnish: pistotulppa
• French: prise
• German: Stecker
• Italian: presa , spina
• Japanese: プラグ (puragu)
• Polish: wtyczka
• Portuguese: ficha , tomada
• Russian: штепсельная вилка (štépsel’naja vílka)
• Serbian: utikač
• Spanish: enchufe

• Chinese: 塞子 sāizi
• Finnish: tulppa
• German: Stöpsel
• Italian: tappo
• Portuguese: tampão
• Russian: пробка (próbka)
• Serbian: čep , zapušač
• Spanish: tapón

Verb

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

   He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.

2. To mention a particular product or service.

   The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.

3. To persist or continue with something.

   Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.

4. To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
   • 1884, H. Rider Haggard, The Witch's Head

     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...

Related terms

• plug in
• unplug

Anagrams

• gulp

Albanian

Etymology

From a language, compare .

Noun

g Albanian

1. plough

Bosnian

Etymology

Noun

1. plough

Croatian

Etymology

Noun

1. plough

French

Etymology

From plug.

Pronunciation

/plug/

Noun

fr-noun m

1. butt-plug

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

From a language, compare .

Noun

1. plough

Romanian

Etymology

From a language, compare .

Pronunciation

Noun

1. plough

Declension

Serbian

Etymology

Noun

1. plough

Slovene

Noun

1. plough (device pulled through the ground in order to break it upon into furrows for planting)

Plug may refer to:

• Plug (comic)
• Plug (fishing), a family of fishing lures
• Plug (horticulture), a planting technique
• An electrical connector
  • DC plug, or DC connector
  • Power plug
  • Power connector
  • Jack (connector)
• Plug (jewellery), a type of solid jewellery that may be worn in stretched piercings
• Freeze plug, designed to intentionally leak engine coolant when it freezes
• Hair plug, hair that has undergone hair transplantation
• Plug board
• Product plug
• Volcanic plug, a geological landform
• Wall plug
• A type of chewing tobacco made by pressing tobacco with syrup
• Alias of Luke Vibert, a British electronica artist and producer
• Peruvian Linux User Group
• Portland Linux/Unix Group
• Plugged, a short, satiric film by Tim Russ
• The Plug, (Nightclub), Sheffield
• Fusible plug, a safety device in steam boilers

See also

• Plugin
• Pug

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