cut plug

noun

compressed chewing tobacco in a portion-sized cake.

Origin of cut plug

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900

Words nearby cut plug

cut off with a shilling, cut one's losses, cut one's teeth on, cut out, cut out of whole cloth, cut plug, cut rate, cut sheet feed, cut short, cut someone dead, cut someone's throat

Example sentences from the Web for cut plug

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

    The Trimmed Lamp |O. Henry

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

    Garrison's Finish |W. B. M. Ferguson