Crossword clues for plugged
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plug \Plug\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plugged; p. pr. & vb. n. Plugging.] To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: plug)
WordNet
adj. (of a coin) altered by the insertion of a plug of base metal
completely obstructed or closed off; "the storm was responsible for many blocked roads and bridges"; "the drain was plugged" [syn: blocked]
n. blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly [syn: stopper, stopple]
a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw, cud, quid, wad]
blatant or sensational promotion [syn: ballyhoo, hoopla, hype]
electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark [syn: spark plug, sparking plug]
an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection [syn: male plug]
an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire [syn: fireplug, fire hydrant]
v. fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak" [syn: stop up, secure]
persist in working hard; "Students must plug away at this problem" [syn: plug away]
deliver a quick blow to; "he punched me in the stomach" [syn: punch]
make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote
See plug
Wikipedia
Plugged is a 2011 crime novel by Eoin Colfer.
The cover was first shown in an interview with Artemis Fowl Confidential. It was published in a slightly revised format.
Usage examples of "plugged".
Sarah sports an asterisk likewise, which means that I have no idea whose bottom is so well plugged in that picture.
He simply plugged his quadtrol directly into his flight bubbler and told it to lead the way.
Yossarian, once he had plugged his headset back into the intercom system, after it had been jerked out when Dobbs wrested the controls away from Huple and hurled them all down suddenly into the deafening, paralyzing, horrifying dive which had plastered Yossarian helplessly to the ceiling of the plane by the top of his head and from which Huple had rescued them just in time by seizing the controls back from Dobbs and leveling the ship out almost as suddenly right back in the middle of the buffeting layer of cacophonous flak from which they had escaped successfully only a moment before.
Taking his time, he installed the Camcorder on its tripod and arranged the photoflood lights which he plugged into an extension cable.
Joe plugged him and the bunch with him used their noodle when they forgot Caulkens and traveled.
There was a moment of disorientation as she interpreted the picture being fed along the optical fibre plugged into her coccyx ganglion splice.
I plugged the data into a modified Wolling model and foresee bad news for the euphotic and benthic phytoplankton the whole Antarctic food chain depends on.
Tom went and got the little electric fogger and plugged it into a socket on one of the flood lamps and killed them off, commenting to me when he was finished that he hated to use it because it was so unselective.
Tony yanked the lines from the nearest socket, and plugged the foggers in.
British gunners pointed their telescopes and saw that the cavern had been plugged with earth-filled wicker gabions and baulks of timber.
MC Governor sat down in his desk chair and plugged his humaniform forefinger into a wall jack once more.
At the last stop, a severelooking woman doctor with closecropped hair and an Electric Juicer plugged into one ear asked him if he was a homosexual.
They had the latches closed, the headsets on and plugged in at the console.
It was only recently that we realized, with this scan and the old autopsy reports and correlation with the saucer as known, that not only was everything aboard plugged into that motherboard directly or indirectly, but so were the crew.
Four times I lifted Rya while she hastily molded a charge of plastique between the pipes and plugged a detonator into it.