plugging
Hiding drugs inside your body to smuggle them.
Definitions
Concealing wraps of crack or heroin inside the rectum so they can't be found in a stop-and-search or a strip-search. Standard practice for county-lines runners moving product on trains, and a grim regular feature of drill bars about teenage workers 'plugged up' on the way out of London.
plugging In A Sentence
Origin & Usage
British drug-trade slang; 'to plug' as in to stop up a hole. Documented widely in reporting on county lines and youth drug running.
People Also Ask
What does plugging mean in slang?
Plugging means hiding drugs inside your body to smuggle them past searches. It's used as a verb.
How do you use plugging in a sentence?
"He got caught plugging gear on the way into the festival."
Is plugging illegal?
Yes — it refers to concealing illegal drugs internally to smuggle them, which is a criminal offence and also physically dangerous.
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