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cut plug

noun

  1. compressed chewing tobacco in a portion-sized cake.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cut plug1

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900

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Example Sentences

I accepted the offer, jumping with joy, and on the way home I had a pipe of fresh, fine-cut plug every evening.

I agreed to hand over a big bag of Cut Plug and a tin box of cigarettes if he would loan us his two wagon-horses.

Moralizing on the deceptiveness of appearances, Crimmins fortified himself with another slab of cut-plug.

Specially when it's full of low-brow mechanics who speak in seven different lingos and subsist mainly on cut plug and garlic.

Odors from strong bacon and boiling coffee contended against the cut-plug fumes from the vespertine pipe.

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