plug

plug is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 11 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
2. noun. A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
3. noun. A high, tapering silk hat.
4. noun. A worthless horse.
5. noun. A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.
6. transitive verb. To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
7. noun. an old or over-worked horse

   Synonyms: hack, jade, nag

8. noun. an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire

   Synonyms: fireplug

9. noun. blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly

   Synonyms: stopper, stopple

10. noun. an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection
11. noun. electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark
12. noun. blatant or sensational promotion

    Synonyms: ballyhoo, hoopla, hype

13. noun. a wad of something chewable as tobacco

    Synonyms: chaw, chew, cud, quid, wad

14. verb. insert as a plug

    "She plugged a cork in the wine bottle"

15. verb. insert a plug into

    "plug the wall"

16. verb. persist in working hard

    "Students must plug away at this problem"

17. verb. make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote
18. verb. deliver a quick blow to

    "he punched me in the stomach"

    Synonyms: punch

19. verb. fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug

    "plug the hole"

    "stop up the leak"

    Synonyms: secure

Synonyms

hack, jade, nag, fireplug, stopper, stopple, ballyhoo, hoopla, hype, chaw, chew, cud, quid, wad, punch, secure

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in plug:

gulp

Common word forms

plugs, plugged, plugger, plugging, plugless

Words from these letters

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