Plug
Plug verb - To strike with a missile from a gun.
Usage example: the drug lord plugged the stool pigeon as a lesson for any others who were tempted to talk
Shoot
Shoot verb - To strike with a missile from a gun.
Usage example: hunters can shoot deer only during the legally specified open season
Plug is a synonym for shoot in help topic. You can use "Plug" instead a verb "Shoot", if it concerns topics such as pot, discharge a projectile, open fire on. informal substitute
How words are described
| long | long plug | long shoot |
| normal | normal plug | normal shoot |
| typical | typical plug | typical shoot |
| brief | brief plug | brief shoot |
| Other adjectives: large, big, huge, bad, new, traditional, last, literal, commercial. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Funny Background Event: During the scene where Eve pretends to shoot Thornhill, you can clearly see a kid in the background plug his ears in anticipation.
Source: Film / North by Northwest -
Stark survives to shoot up on nanomachines himself, enabling him to plug his brain into a brand-new suit, then goes back in swinging an earthmover bucket like a foam rubber bat.
Source: Creator / Warren Ellis -
In Empire, until you develop ring bayonets, your soldiers will not be able to shoot for the rest of the battle if you have them plug up the barrels with blades and charge.
Source: Bottomless Magazines
Cite this Source
Shoot and Plug. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/plug/shoot
Plug & Shoot. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/plug/shoot>.
Shoot or Plug. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/plug/shoot.
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