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bung

[buhng] / bʌŋ /


NOUN
stopper
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A £5 sewage bung has saved them from having to bail out the toilets every 40 minutes during the night during a flood.

From BBC ● May 19, 2023

Lemish, like Kramer, is a diva, always ready to pull the bung from his emotions.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2020

Don’t bung them in with all your other laundry, that’s how they get irrevocably separated and, despite best intentions, post-wash pairing just doesn’t happen.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2019

They never knocked the bung out of the beer keg or danced a polka.

From Washington Post ● May 20, 2019

With trembling lips she said, “And even if we had found the bung, we’d never’ve took it out! It was just a joke. We wouldn’t’ ve sunk it, never!”

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman




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