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plug
noun- a piece of publicity, a promotional pitch US, 1902
- Getting these songs before the public, or as the trade terms it, the “plug,” is perhaps the soul of the industry. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 32, 1948
- When it begins to rain, the dancers begin an anti-rain dance and it stops. The leader concludes with a plug for his studio, which teaches dance, song, drums, and karate. — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 48, 1969
- [T]hey started reading from Timothy Leary’s Psychedelic Prayer Book. He has published two and I want to put in a plug for both of them. — Richard Neville, Play Power, p. 237, 1970
- a tampon US
Understood to be a variation on conventional “plug”, possibly from abbreviation of technical jargon “catamenial plug” (a tampon). - — The Museum of Menstruation and Women’s Health, May 2001
- a bullet hole UK
- — Dave Courtney, Dodgy Dave’s Little Black Book, p. 7, 2001
- a poker player with a steady, competent and predictable style of play US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 68, 1988
- a horse that has seen its best days US, 1860
- There are five half-mile tracks in Maryland, which run almost all year with unknown plugs and has-beens, raced by “Gypsy” horsemen. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 273, 1951
- a temporary worker US
- — Vann Wesson, Generation X Field Guide and Lexicon, p. 128, 1997
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