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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
plug-ugly informal, chiefly N. Amer.

▶noun (pl. plug-uglies) a thug or villain. ▶adjective (of a person) very ugly.

– origin C19: by assoc. with plug in the sense ‘hit with the fist’.

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