plugger

The cop drama “Confidential Informant” is one of those plugger genre pictures that puts a big star on its poster — Mel Gibson, in this case — although the actor only appears in a handful of scenes.

Here spoke the trainer, longtime Kentuckian plugger Eric Reed, training since 1983: “I saw him at the head of the stretch when he cut in, and then I passed out. I don’t remember what happened after that.”

His mother, Peggy, was a song plugger.

His mother was a song plugger.

His mother was a song plugger, a singer hired to promote new music for department stores or music publishers.