Plug
Plug verb - To close up so that no empty spaces remain.
Read
Read verb - To go over and mentally take in the content of.
How words are described
| long | long plug | long read |
| solid | solid plug | solid read |
| standard | standard plug | standard read |
| bad | bad plug | bad read |
| Other adjectives: traditional. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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After Shaun's closing monologue, a plug for the site appears, sometimes mentioning the page where you can read the credits.
Source: Credits Pushback -
The episode involving the "Book It" plug, "Big 'J', Private Eye", involved Jamie (not having read or even selected a book until the last minute) doing a videotaped report so the class could go on a pizza party (at Pizza Hut, of course).
Source: Series / Small Wonder - His review of The War of the Worlds amounted to: "This book is good, go read Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate." He's also stooped to sock-puppet antics on various literary fora, bringing up a topic and then using it to plug his book.
Source: Vanity Publishing
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