PLUGS Synonyms

• a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball

• a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance

• device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible

• an instrumentality that connects

• a place of business for retailing goods

• receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices

• an opening that permits escape or release

• activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion

• a bony hollow into which a structure fits

• receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted

• a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted

• one who works hard at boring tasks

• a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

• a mediocre and disdained writer

• a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil

• a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

• an old or over-worked horse

• a horse kept for hire

• a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

• cut with a hacking tool

• be able to manage or manage successfully

• cut away

• kick on the arms

• kick on the shins

• fix a computer program piecemeal until it works

• significantly cut up a manuscript

• cough spasmodically

• a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite

• a woman adulterer

• a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green

• an old or over-worked horse

• of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green

• lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

• exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

• someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault

• an old or over-worked horse

• bother persistently with trivial complaints

• worry persistently

• remind or urge constantly

• an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down

• a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply

• (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit

• blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly

• close or secure with or as if with a stopper

• blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly

• close or secure with or as if with a stopper

• a quiet plodding workhorse

• a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together

• blatant or sensational promotion

• advertize noisily or blatantly

• a wad of something chewable as tobacco

• chew without swallowing

• a wad of something chewable as tobacco

• biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

• chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth

• food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again

• a wad of something chewable as tobacco

• a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)

• similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored

• systematic training by multiple repetitions

• (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms

• make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool

• train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons

• learn by repetition

• teach by repetition

• undergo military training or do military exercises

• an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire

• blatant or sensational promotion

• blatant or sensational promotion

• publicize in an exaggerated and often misleading manner