plug

/plʌg/ n [C] (ELECTRICAL DEVICE)

Definition

› a small plastic or rubber device with metal pins that connects the end of a wire on a piece of electrical equipment to a supply of electricity › A plug is also a spark plug

(Definition of plug n (ELECTRICAL DEVICE) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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plug away phrasal verb
plug n ADVERTISE
plug n ELECTRICAL DEVICE
plug n HOLE BLOCK
plug v ADVERTISE
plug v HOLE BLOCK
plug v USE ELECTRICAL DEVICE
plug-in n

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