Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A gangster or ruffian.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A city ruffian; one of a band of rowdies who indulged in wanton assaults upon persons and property in streets and public places: first used in Baltimore.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective slang Very
ugly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who bullies weaker people
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"A prizefighter, a hoodlum, a plug-ugly," Sarah sneered, after she had exhausted herself of all calamitous forecasts of her own future and the future of her children in the absence of Saxon's weekly four dollars and a half.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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He'll kill somebody yet, that plug-ugly of yourn, an 'be hanged for it.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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And what a smart idea to ignore the question and hand out the prepared plug-ugly party slur stuff - the great clunking fist - the subtle Brown touch that gets the likes of you fawning and crooning.
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The result is the oddly touching Cyrus, starring plug-ugly character actor John C Reilly as a sad, long-divorced, freelance book editor.
Cyrus 2010
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Danny Trejo, the plug-ugly character actor and former criminal, plays a Mexican cop too honest for the federales, who escapes into Texas and is drawn into a conflict between on one side Hispanics and illegal immigrants and on the other rightwing racist vigilantes.
Machete – review Philip French 2010
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And what a smart idea to ignore the question and hand out the prepared plug-ugly party slur stuff - the great clunking fist - the subtle Brown touch that gets the likes of you fawning and crooning.
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A plug-ugly if ever I saw one and I've seen my share.
Nutrition 2010
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Finally, it may not matter: Darren Rowse has a plug-ugly blog.
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Yes, I know it's hard to make a case for preserving a plug-ugly home just because a photo of it graced the cover of the Carpenters 1973 album "Now & Then", or even because it's the place where pop icon Karen Carpenter collapsed shortly before dying of anorexia-related heart disease but still ....
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I found this assessment bang-on, though; the cover's plug-ugly; and, I immediately thought of Art Durkee's spine-tingling revelations in a discussion here earlier this year on cover design and thought cue twilight-zone tones, the universe is serendipitously serenading some one or who.
Something I missed ... Frank Wilson 2008
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