Plugg

Part of speech: noun, verb

Definitions

1. A piece of material pushed into an opening to block or seal it so that nothing can leak out
2. An object fitted into a hole, drain or hollow to close it off and keep liquid or air from passing
3. A stopper that fills a gap or aperture, often made of wood, rubber or metal, to seal it tightly

Etymology: "Plugg" is a word that started life as a tag at the end of a song. Producers in the rap and beat-making scene would close a track with a short spoken or sung announcement, "Plug!", to credit the person who made the beat and to advertise them to listeners. The members of the BeatPluggz collective recorded vocals for these tags, and the spelling "Plugs!" came first before the form "Plugg" took hold. From there the sense shifted from the act of a tag to the act of promoting someone. In online music culture, "plugging" a track means pushing it to a wider audience, and the spelling with a double "g" is the one used in that scene. The word's meaning as a noun, referring to a stopper filling a gap, is a separate and older sense, so the music term is the more recent use.