Pluggers

Every day, two Apache Point employees called pluggers lean over a plate and in about forty-five minutes plug into each of those 640 holes one end of an optical fiber, which slips into the hole with a satisfying click. ❋ Ann Finkbeiner (2010)

Members of our American political and economic elite are keepers of secrets, cover-uppers of incompetence, "pluggers" of leaks, obstructionists of truth, and hoarders of classified documents. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The "pluggers" are called in and bidden to memorize the song. ❋ Brett Page (N/A)

And naturally, we're not concerned that our corrective -- a couple of Senate switches where we get one or two more gusher-pluggers in office to make everything nice again -- DOES NOT COMPORT WITH REALITY: the coming of several more Senators who LOVE THEM SOME CHAMBER NON-DISCLOSURE MONEY GOBS FOREVER. ❋ Jason Linkins (2010)

For most of my time as a patrol sgt, on an average late/night shift, all it would take for me to be out of ` gap-pluggers ` would be one serious RTA, because I knew that would be the one traffic unit tied up – our traffic people were excellent and would take domestics etc if we were stuffed. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

The response from Sony/ATV's song pluggers, who play matchmaker between writers and recording artists, was immediate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Download posters, flyers and quarter page pluggers in Spanish, English, Arabic and Polish here: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Steele got the message, dutifully added his finger to the the other GOP dike hole pluggers, then made like Limbuagh and made wild sounds about how the GOP moderates were ruining the party, and vowed retribution against them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well-prepared pluggers ground out wins to get to the playoffs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In other words, the behaviour of the pothole pluggers more than compensates for them not carrying prey themselves. posted by Chad Arment @ 1: 09 PM ❋ Unknown (2007)

LA: Well, in the old days, the publishers had the actual “song pluggers,” who used to go out and push the songs to other artists. ❋ Unknown (2009)