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a tiny fork that feeds your gadgets electricity and occasionally bites your finger
means A plug is a fitting that stops or fills a hole, or the pronged connector that joins a device to an electrical socket — and, by extension, a quick promotional mention slipped into conversation.
from Plug comes from the Middle Dutch and Middle Low German 'plugge,' a bung or peg for stopping a barrel — so the oldest plug was a stopper jammed into a hole. English borrowed it in the 1600s for stoppers of all kinds; the electrical 'plug' is a much later figurative leap, naming the device by the way it pegs into a socket. The 'plug' meaning a promotional mention is American slang from the early 20th century, possibly from the idea of plugging away at something or stopping a gap with advertising — but that link is uncertain.
- three prongs
- That bottom pin is ground, the silent lifesaver
- national chaos
- World uses 15 incompatible plug types
- slang life
- Means your dealer, your hookup, your guy
- phantom drain
- Plugged-in chargers sip power doing nothing
- british beast
- UK plugs are armored, fused, lethal underfoot
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