“It was simply a hollowed-out cow horn, sealed with a plug of carved wood on the big end, and a smaller cap on the pointed end.”

“Len had to come to the store for every cent of cash he wanted, every stamp, every pinch of snuff, every half plug of tobacco.”

“Frequently, the surgeon places a plug of soft tissue in the tubotympanum.”

“He was a legendary record plugger in the U.K. who worked with us from the beginning of our career.”

“It's easy to compile a list of big league pitchers who went from stopper to plugger.”

“Lane, a high-school dropout, was a song plugger in Tin Pan Alley when he came to the attention of George Gershwin, who became his mentor.”

“They gently attached the metal plughole to a vice before cutting Becky free with a hacksaw blade.”

“Fortunately, however, I just prefer to wash the evidence down my bath's plughole.”

“Then he collected the ashes and pushed them into the sink, running the cold water tap until they had disappeared down the plughole.”

“In America we've been paying for people to play our music on the radio and in the UK we have pluggers who get paid a lot to try and get the record on the radio.”

“Alex Butler, who whipped industry bods and radio pluggers into a frenzy with his first single last year, will be performing tonight.”