Usually means: Device for connecting electrical equipment.
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General (34 matching dictionaries)
  1. plug: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. plug: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plug: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. plug: Collins English Dictionary
  5. plug: Vocabulary.com
  6. Plug, plug: Wordnik
  7. plug: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. plug: Wiktionary
  9. plug: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. plug: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. plug: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. plug: Dictionary.com
  13. plug: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. plug: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Plug (accounting), Plug (comic), Plug (comics), Plug (connector), Plug (fishing), Plug (horticulture), Plug (jewellery), Plug (sanitation), Plug, The Plug: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Plug: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. plug: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. plug: Rhymezone
  19. plug, plug (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. plug: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. plug: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. plug: Free Dictionary
  23. plug: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. plug: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Plug (Promote): The Word Detective
  26. plug: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. plug: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. plug: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Cigar Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. PLUG: Accounting Glossary
  3. Plug: bizterms.net
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. plug: Legal dictionary
  6. Plug: Financial dictionary
  7. Plug: Radio Programming and Production

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. plug: Netlingo
  2. Plug, plug: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. plug: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Plug: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. plug: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLUG: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. plug: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Plug: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. plug: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. plug: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  6. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  7. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  8. plug: Master Mariner
  9. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Plug: Fiberglass Glossary
  11. PLUG: Industry Terms for Fiberglass
  12. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  13. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  14. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  15. Plug, Plug: Latitude Mexico
  16. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
noun:  (loosely) An electric socket: wall plug.
noun:  Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
noun:  (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
noun:  (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
noun:  (US, slang) A worthless horse.
noun:  (dated) Any worn-out or useless article.
noun:  (dated, slang) A book that fails to sell.
noun:  (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
noun:  (slang) A promotion (act of promoting) of a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing, concept, etc, for example during an interview or a commercial.
noun:  (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
noun:  (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
noun:  (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
noun:  (jewelry) A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
noun:  (slang) A drug dealer.
noun:  A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
noun:  (aviation) A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
verb:  (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
verb:  (transitive) To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a bullet.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To have sex with, penetrate sexually.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To ingest a drug rectally

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