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WORDY WEDNESDAY: 'SHAMELESS PLUG'

23 / 09 / 2015

WORDY WEDNESDAY: 'SHAMELESS PLUG': meaning and examples

Welcome back, Daily Vitamin readers! How is your week going? Hopefully it is going well.

Last week for Wordy Wednesday, we looked at the word SHAMELESS. Click on the link below for that lesson.

This week, we are looking at a slang term that is somewhat related: SHAMELESS PLUG

Definition: To promote your personal interest or product in an inappropriate environment, for example in a blog on the Internet. 

Example 1: As a shameless plug, she included a link to her website when she left a comment on Facebook. 

You might see this on Facebook status updates, with something that looks like: 

Example 2: "Shameless plug, everyone! Please check out my new website. Here is the link."

We use PLUG because TO PLUG something is to insert something, which is what people are doing when they promote their website: they are inserting information about their product. PLUG has come to mean "to advertise something."

And now, here's a SHAMELESS PLUG from Ziggurat: check out our LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook pages, as well as our Blog

Have a great day!