plug
/plʌɡ/
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.
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.
A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
He preferred a plug of tobacco to loose chaw.
A high, tapering silk hat.
A worthless horse.
That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!
Any worn-out or useless article.
A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features one or more of these.
During the interview, the author put in a plug for his latest novel.
A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.
A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.
A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
(jewellery) A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
A drug dealer.
A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.