Usually means: Ignites fuel in combustion engines.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word spark plug:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. spark plug: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spark plug: Merriam-Webster
  3. spark plug: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spark plug: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spark plug: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spark plug: Vocabulary.com
  7. spark-plug, spark plug: Wordnik
  8. spark plug: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Spark plug, Spark plug: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. spark plug: Wiktionary
  11. spark plug: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spark plug: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spark plug: Dictionary.com
  14. Spark Plug (album), Spark plug (disambiguation), Spark plug: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. spark plug: Rhymezone
  16. spark plug: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. spark plug: FreeDictionary.org
  18. spark plug: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. spark plug: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spark-plug, spark plug: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. spark plug: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See spark_plugs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (spark plug)

noun:  The part of an internal combustion engine which forms a high-voltage electric spark which ignites the fuel-air mixture to begin the power stroke.
noun:  (figuratively) Someone who is a driving force in new endeavours.
noun:  (military) A rod (for cylindrical secondaries) or sphere (for spherical secondaries) of fissile material at the center of the secondary of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which undergoes nuclear fission when compressed to supercriticality by the imploding secondary, helping to raise the secondary to the pressures and temperatures necessary to ignite nuclear fusion in the secondary's fusion fuel.

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