plug-ugly

== English == === Pronunciation === === Adjective === plug-ugly (not comparable) (slang) Very ugly. Synonym: (North America) butt-ugly === Noun === plug-ugly (plural plug-uglies) (slang) A violent thug; a goon. (slang) An ugly person. (US, historical) A member of an American nativist street gang that operated in the west side of Baltimore, Maryland, from 1854 to 1865. ==== Related terms ==== pug-ugly === See also === Plug Uglies, a 19th-century street gang in Baltimore, Maryland === References === “plug-ugly”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.