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The phrase "a plug of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small piece or amount of something, often in the context of tobacco or other substances.
Example: "He took out a plug of tobacco and began to roll his own cigarette."
Alternatives: "a chunk of" or "a piece of".
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He twisted a plug of sap from his beard.
What did it mean — surely something more than a plug of cheap philosophy or existential world-weariness?
"And I took it like a fool, and I got hooked again," said Schilling, a plug of chewing tobacco in his right cheek.
Take the young man with a plug of gum in his mouth, and who had been swinging a Wiffle bat with surprising smoothness.
"It's an opportunity to buy," said one fleshy flyboy, a slice of steak tucked into his cheek like a plug of chewing tobacco.
"We put a plug of gluten in Coke and it foamed for a while, then became a glob that sat there for weeks,'' Jones said.
"We put a plug of gluten in Coke and it foamed for a while, then became a glob that sat there for weeks," Jones said.
At the city's core is the Old Town's Castle Rock, a plug of black basalt sealing the vent of an extinct volcano.
Unlike the smoked, fat-marbled strips most here know as bacon, the Irish version is a plug of brined pork, typically from the shoulder or leg of the pig.
I am a total horticultural novice but you cannot plant so much as a plug of curly leaved parsley without feeling a connection not only to the earth but to the countless generations who have worked the land before you.
A plug of PDA medium was used as control treatment while the pathogen plug was placed at the other side.
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