Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to unplug or cut power 2 (context intransitive idiomatic English) to cease to support; to halt 3 (context intransitive English) to cease or turn off life support 4 (context intransitive idiomatic English) to cease from production or publication.
WordNet
v. prevent from happening or continuing; "The government pulled the plug on spending"
Wikipedia
Pull the Plug is an album by the Huntingtons self-released by the band in 2005. Mike and Josh with acoustic guitars singing mostly Huntingtons tunes. it was recorded June 12–14, 2005 at Mikey's Green Room. It was mixed and messed with June 15–16, 2005, engineered by M. Holt and mastered by J. Powell at Steinhaus.
Pull the Plug is the debut album by drum and bass act London Elektricity, released in June 1999 through Hospital Records.
"Rewind" was inspired by 4hero's mix of "Blackgold Of The Sun" and features vocals by Liane Carroll, a jazz-folk singer from Hastings, South England. She also appears on "Do You Believe", which is a cover version and tribute to the Webster Lewis 23-minute original.
Usage examples of "pull the plug".
So he whips up his own script that will just write random information to every sector on the entire hard drive, then go back and do it again, and again, and again, forever--or until the cops pull the plug.
Well, with that, I could hardly refuse him anything, and what he wanted was someone to come to the Well, where we are now, and help him pull the plug and start it again.
Newspaper headlines, even the signs I see, they all say yeah, that's right, Georgie, pull the plug.
It was simply that no one had had the nerve to pull the plug, and some frightened attendant, not knowing what to do with the grisly souvenir, had brought it to Ismail.