plugs
plural of plug
plugs
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plug
• gulps
Source: Wiktionary
Plug, n. Etym: [Akin to D. plug, G. pflock, Dan. plök, plug, Sw. plugg; cf. W. ploc.]
1. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
2. A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. [U. S.]
3. A high, tapering silk hat. [Slang, U.S.]
4. A worthless horse. [Slang, U.S.]
5. (Building)
Definition: A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails. Fire plug, a street hydrant to which hose may be attached. [U. S.] -- Hawse plug (Naut.), a plug to stop a hawse hole.
– Plug and feather. (Stone Working) See Feather, n., 7.
– Plug centerbit, a centerbit ending in a small cylinder instead of a point, so as to follow and enlarge a hole previously made, or to form a counterbore around it.
– Plug rod (Steam Eng.) , a rod attached to the beam for working the valves, as in the Cornish engine.
– Plug valve (Mech.), a tapering valve, which turns in a case like the plug of a faucet.
Plug, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plugged; p. pr. & vb. n. Plugging.]
Definition: To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2025
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
