bung

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A stopper especially for the hole through which a cask, keg, or barrel is filled or emptied.
2. n. A bunghole.
3. v. To close with or as if with a cork or stopper.
4. v. Informal To injure or damage: fell on skis and bunged up my leg.
5. v. Chiefly British To fling; toss: "The Hungarian director bungs star Klaus Maria Brandauer once more into the breaches of past Teuton history” ( Nigel Andrews).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A large cork or stopper for closing the hole in the side of a cask through which it is filled.
2. n. The hole or orifice in a cask through which it is filled; a bung-hole.
3. n. A pickpocket; a sharper.
4. n. A brewer.
5. n. A pile of seggars or setters in a porcelain-kiln.
6. To stop the orifice of with a bung; close.
7. To beat severely; exhaust by hard blows or strenuous effort; bruise; maul: used chiefly in the phrase bunged up: as, he was all bunged up in the fight; the day's work has completely bunged me up.
8. Dead.
9. To fail; go to smash; collapse; become bankrupt: as, the bank has gone bung.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Australia, New Zealand, slang Broken, not in working order.
2. n. 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.
3. n. A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal.
4. n. slang A bribe.
5. v. transitive To plug, as with a bung.
6. v. transitive, informal To put somewhere without care; chuck.
7. v. transitive To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
8. v. transitive To pass a bribe.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
2. n. The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
3. n. Obs. & Low A sharper or pickpocket.
4. v. To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. close with a cork or stopper
2. v. give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
3. n. a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask