Usually means: Devices for connecting electrical equipment.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. plugs: Merriam-Webster
  2. plugs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plugs: Collins English Dictionary
  4. plugs: Vocabulary.com
  5. Plug's, Plugs, plugs: Wordnik
  6. plugs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. plugs: Wiktionary
  8. plugs: Dictionary.com
  9. plugs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Plugs (fishing): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. plugs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plugs: Legal dictionary
  2. plugs: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plugs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plugs: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. plugs: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plugs: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Plugs: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See plug as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (plug)

noun:  (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
noun:  (loosely) An electric socket: wall plug.
noun:  Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
noun:  (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
noun:  (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
noun:  (US, slang) A worthless horse.
noun:  (dated) Any worn-out or useless article.
noun:  (dated, slang) A book that fails to sell.
noun:  (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
noun:  (slang) A promotion (act of promoting) of a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing, concept, etc, for example during an interview or a commercial.
noun:  (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
noun:  (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
noun:  (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
noun:  (jewelry) A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
noun:  (slang) A drug dealer.
noun:  A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
noun:  (aviation) A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
verb:  (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
verb:  (transitive) To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a bullet.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To have sex with; to penetrate sexually.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To ingest a drug rectally.
noun:  Short for fireplug (“fire hydrant”). [A fire hydrant.]
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