Definition of plug-ugly in US English:
plug-ugly
nounˈpləɡ ˈəɡlēˈpləɡ ˈəɡli
North American informal A thug or villain.
Example sentencesExamples
- A broad plug-ugly was trying to twist around, shaking and shimmying his forearm caught by her hands.
- Two huge plug-uglies stood on either side of the door, arms folded.
- The filmmakers' desire to create an unstuffy, modern version of the Renaissance monarch merely turns him into a boorish, violent plug-ugly.
adjectiveˈpləɡ ˈəɡlēˈpləɡ ˈəɡli
North American informal Very ugly.
that was one plug-ugly dress
Example sentencesExamples
- Okay, so you are not plug-ugly and you don't find it impossible to lure women into your dizzying orbit, but just what is it about you that turns out to be so utterly repellent?
- But the belt clip is plug-ugly and poorly designed and oversized - what happened, it seems to have been made and fitted by a different company?
- Gone were her cauliflower ears, gone was her pug nose, her squat face had ballooned out, her once squinty eyes were now just slits in her plug-ugly face.
- He has gone off for good with that plug-ugly researcher.
Origin
By association with the verb plug in the informal sense ‘hit with the fist’.