Last Updated：2025/11/20

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

plug

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Source Word

plug

IPA(Pronunciation)

/plʌɡ/

Verb

transitive informal intransitive slang

Japanese Meaning

穴や隙間などを塞ぐ、ふさぐ / 特定の商品やサービスをはっきりと宣伝する、広告する

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Please plug the drain before filling the bathtub.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

浴槽にお湯をためる前に、排水口を栓で塞いでください。

Sense（1）

(transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.

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Sense（2）

(transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.

The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.

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Sense（3）

(intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.

Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.

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Sense（4）

(transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.

I am awfully glad that you kept your nerve and plugged him; it would have been better if you could have nailed him through the right shoulder, which would not have killed him...

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Sense（5）

(slang, transitive) To have sex with, penetrate sexually.

I’d love to plug him.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

plugs

（ present singular third-person ）

plugging

（ participle present ）

plugged

（ participle past ）

plugged

（ past ）

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