What it means
A plug is your go-to connection for getting something hard to find, most famously weed or other substances, but it can be tickets, trainers, or a quick job lead too. If you’ve got a plug, you’re not stuck googling, you’re just sending a text and waiting to be sorted. Loyal plugs get kept close.
Usage examples
"Text your plug, I need two tickets and a little green before Friday, and don’t let him tax us like last time."
"My cousin is the plug for vintage trainers across the East End, knows three shops nobody else has heard of and gets the boxes before they hit the official drop list."
"Need a plug for last-minute concert tickets, my mate at the door can usually shift a pair on the night if you message her by half six on the day."
Where it comes from
Comes out of Black American slang where a plug was the trusted source for anything hard to get, weed, sneakers, tickets, you name it. Hip-hop carried the word from the streets of the South into mainstream English in the twenty-tens, and now everybody from your gran to your cousin is asking who is your plug for the cheap concert seats.
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