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plug-ugly

adjective

  1. informal.
    extremely ugly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. slang.
    a city tough; ruffian
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of plug-ugly1

C19: origin obscure; originally applied to ruffians in New York who attempted to exert political pressure
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Jay Cee had brains, so her plug-ugly looks didn't seem to matter.

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The “plug-ugly” of Baltimore is another name for the same class.

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But perhaps more than any American dramatist working today, Mr. Bradshaw walks — no, make that tramples — the lines that divide the good, the bad and the plug-ugly, both in art and in life.

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Mets fans have seen the plug-ugly bullpen implode in recent days and are doing their best to run Jason Bay out of town.

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Even the most ardent admirers of the Xolo concede that the dog is plug-ugly.

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