bungs
noun
Meaning
- A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
- A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal.
- A bribe.
- The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
- A sharper or pickpocket.
- To plug, as with a bung.
- To put or throw somewhere without care; to chuck.
- To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
- To pass a bribe.
- (thieves' cant) A purse.
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