plug vs shut

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. 

shut

verb
  • To close, to stop from being open. 

  • To confine in an enclosed area. 

  • To catch or snag in the act of shutting something. 

  • To preclude; to exclude; to bar out. 

  • To close, to stop being open. 

  • To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed. 

noun
  • The act or time of shutting; close. 

  • The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together. 

  • A door or cover; a shutter. 

  • A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets. 

adj
  • Closed; not open. 

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