Usually means: Very unattractive or unpleasant person.
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  1. plug-ugly: Merriam-Webster
  2. plug-ugly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plug-ugly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. plug-ugly, plug-ugly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. plug-ugly: Vocabulary.com
  6. plug-ugly: Wordnik
  7. plug-ugly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. plug-ugly: Wiktionary
  9. plug-ugly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. plug-ugly: Dictionary.com
  11. plug-ugly: Rhymezone
  12. plug-ugly: FreeDictionary.org
  13. plug-ugly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. plug-ugly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plug-ugly, plug-ugly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. plug-ugly: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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▸ adjective:  (slang) Very ugly.
▸ noun:  (slang) An ugly person.
▸ noun:  (US, historical) A member of an American nativist street gang that operated in the west side of Baltimore, Maryland, from 1854 to 1865.
▸ noun:  (US, slang, dated) A violent thug; a goon.

Similar:
tough guy, bruiser, pug-ugly, butt-ugly, butt ugly, uggo, busted, beat, munting, hanging, more...

Opposite:
beautiful, handsome, attractive, pretty, lovely

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Similar:
tough guy, bruiser, pug-ugly, butt-ugly, butt ugly, uggo, busted, beat, munting, hanging, more...

Opposite:
beautiful, handsome, attractive, pretty, lovely



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