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cut plug

American  

noun

  1. compressed chewing tobacco in a portion-sized cake.


Etymology

Origin of cut plug

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900

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When baited properly, a cut plug herring will corkscrew through the water similar to a live herring.

From Seattle Times Sep. 6, 2022

Charlie Cottar was the first man to chew cut plug in East Africa.

From Time Magazine Archive

Husky Senator-elect Brown chews Navy cut plug, makes a thundering speech.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three Russians, stripped to the waist, were lounging in one corner of the stokehold, and all were smoking cigarettes made from cut plug and tissue paper.

From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry

Here he threw away the remnant of the principe, and, securing his pipe, beat the ashes there-out and carefully reloaded with cut plug.

From Wolfville by Lewis, Alfred Henry

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