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plugged, ppl. a.|plʌgd|
[f. plug v. + -ed1.]
1. Stopped up, closed, or filled with or as with a plug. Of a shell: Having a plug in place of the fuze.
1872Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 184/2 A plugged shell of 105 lb. 1884Mil. Engineering (ed. 3) I. ii. 104 The instructor will cause each man to throw both land and sea service plugged hand grenades. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 603 A plugged vein on each side..was peculiarly prominent.
2. U.S. Of coins: having a portion removed and the space filled with base material.
1888Texas Siftings 3 Nov., Ticket Agent—Can't sell you a ticket for that quarter; it's plugged. 1890B. Hall Turnover Club 207 The first speaker..paid the price of his folly with a plugged quarter. 1909‘O. Henry’ Options 312 Mr. Hinkle told me..you'd never taken in a lead silver dollar or a plugged one. 1912Pearson's Mag. (Amer. ed.) XXVII. 691/2 For a plugged peso I'd stay with you! 1923C. E. Mulford Black Buttes 265 He says..he'll see us both in hell before he'll pay a plugged peso. 1936C. Sandburg People, Yes 63 He seems to think he's the frog's tonsils but he looks to me like a plugged nickel. 1946E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh (1947) iv. 210 Listen, you cockeyed old bum, for a plugged nickel I'd―. 1974Hawkey & Bingham Wild Card viii. 81 If as much as a whisper gets out..none of our lives are going to be worth a plugged nickel.
3. plugged-in, electrically connected by means of a plug (see plug v. 1 e); also fig.
1957V. Nabokov Pnin i. 14 His devoutly plugged-in clock would make nonsense of his mornings after a storm in the middle of the night had paralyzed the local power station. 1970E. McGirr Death pays Wages vi. 126 A box with a plugged-in pair of earphones. 1975Wentworth & Flexner's Dict. Amer. Slang Suppl. 732/1 Plugged-in adj. = turned-on. 1977M. Herr Dispatches (1978) 32 After a year I felt so plugged in to all the stories..that even the dead started telling me stories.
Sense 3 in Dict. becomes 4. Add: 3. Golf. Of a ball: stuck or embedded where it lands.
1954Pop. Golf July 34 (caption) The 1954 Amateur Championship will be remembered for the Joe Carr, Peter Toogood Incident of the plugged ball in the mud patch. 1987Golfer's Compan. June 11/1 When the Colonel arrived the player asked whether he wasn't entitled to a drop from a plugged ball in a hazard. |