bung vs plug

bung

verb
  • To plug, as with a bung. 

  • To put or throw something without care; to chuck. 

  • To pass a bribe. 

  • To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell. 

adj
  • Broken, not in working order. 

noun
  • The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole. 

  • A bribe. 

  • The cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal. 

  • A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc. 

plug

verb
  • To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole. 

  • To persist or continue with something. 

  • To ingest a drug rectally 

  • To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it. 

  • To have sex with, penetrate sexually. 

  • To shoot a bullet into something with a gun. 

noun
  • A promotion (act of promoting) a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing (concept, etc), for example during an interview or a commercial. 

  • A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape. 

  • A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed. 

  • An electric socket: wall plug. 

  • Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole. 

  • A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one. 

  • A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear. 

  • A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. 

  • A high, tapering silk hat. 

  • A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose. 

  • A drug dealer. 

  • A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate. 

  • A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails. 

  • A worthless horse. 

  • A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks. 

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