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  • adjective Without a plug.

Etymologies

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plug +‎ -less

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Examples

  • It will be the most value-oriented hybrid, with the highest mileage of any 'plugless'

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • By some miracle worked by Luisa on the unsmiling receptionists, I get a room three floors up, wonderfully tatty, complete with plugless bathroom, jammed balcony French window, TV, broken fridge and large desk.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • By some miracle worked by Luisa on the unsmiling receptionists, I get a room three floors up, wonderfully tatty, complete with plugless bathroom, jammed balcony French window, TV, broken fridge and large desk.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Reads me the riot act every time I show up plugless.

    Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer Jen Sincero 2002

  • Reads me the riot act every time I show up plugless.

    Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer Jen Sincero 2002

  • Reads me the riot act every time I show up plugless.

    Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer Jen Sincero 2002

  • It is not the abundance of words, but the scarcity of ideas, that makes us flee from "the plugless word-spout" and avoid the chatterbox.

    Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

  • Men, plugless word-spouts, whose deep fountains are

    The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 01: Earlier Poems (1830-1836) Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World The greenest of green cars: an encompassing overview | Rush Lane Inhabitat's Week in Green: exciting green cars, plugless power and a candy robot -- Engadget Click here to leave a comment.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Wendy Gordon 2012

  • Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World The greenest of green cars: an encompassing overview | Rush Lane Inhabitat's Week in Green: exciting green cars, plugless power and a candy robot -- Engadget Click here to leave a comment.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Wendy Gordon 2012

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