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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   plug

   • IPA[pləɡ]

   美式

   • n.
     an obstruction blocking a hole, pipe, etc.；a circular piece of metal, rubber, or plastic used to stop the drain of a bathtub or basin and keep the water in it.
   • v.
     block or fill in (a hole or cavity)；insert (something) into an opening so as to fill it

   • verb: plug, 3rd person present: plugs, gerund or present participle: plugging, past tense: plugged, past participle: plugged

   • noun: plug, plural noun: plugs

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. an obstruction blocking a hole, pipe, etc. somewhere in the pipes there is a plug of ice blocking the flow 同義詞 stopper, bung, cork, seal, spigot, ... 更多spile, stopple
   • ▪ a circular piece of metal, rubber, or plastic used to stop the drain of a bathtub or basin and keep the water in it.
   • ▪ North American informal a baby's pacifier.
   • ▪ a mass of solidified lava filling the neck of an old volcano.
   • ▪ (in gardening) a young plant or clump of grass with a small mass of soil protecting its roots, for planting in the ground.
   • 2. a device for making an electrical connection, especially between an appliance and a power supply, consisting of an insulated casing with metal pins that fit into holes in an outlet the cable is fitted with a two-pin plug
   • ▪ short for spark plug
   • 3. informal a piece of publicity promoting a product, event, or establishment he threw in a plug, boasting that the restaurant offered many entrées for under $5 同義詞 piece of publicity, favorable mention, advertisement, promotion, recommendation, ... 更多mention, good word, commercial, informalhype, push, puff, ad, boost, ballyhoo, advert
   • 4. a piece of tobacco cut from a larger cake for chewing they sold chewing tobacco in bars and plugs 同義詞 wad, quid, twist, chew, informalchaw, ... 更多rarepigtail, cud, cake
   • ▪ tobacco in large cakes designed to be cut for chewing he was always chewing plug and cracking jokes
   • 5. a lure with one or more hooks attached.
   • 6. short for fireplug
   • 7. North American informal a tired or old horse.

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. block or fill in (a hole or cavity) trucks arrived loaded with gravel to plug the hole and clear the road 同義詞 stop (up), seal (up/off), close (up/off), cork, stopper, ... 更多bung, block (up/off), dam (up), fill (up), pack, stuff, stopple
   • ▪ insert (something) into an opening so as to fill it the baby plugged his thumb into his mouth
   • 2. informal mention (a product, event, or establishment) publicly in order to promote it during the show he plugged his new record 同義詞 publicize, promote, give publicity to, advertise, mention, ... 更多give a mention to, write up, build up, beat/bang the drum for, commend, draw attention to, informalhype, hype up, push, puff, boost
   • 3. North American informal shoot or hit (someone or something) he got plugged in the head while he was taking a nap 同義詞 shoot, hit, shoot down, gun down, pick off, ... 更多informalblast, pump full of lead

   片語

   • plug the gap
   • plug away
   • plug in
   • plug into