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A plunger is a device that is used to release stoppages in plumbing.
Plunger may also refer to:
- Plunger or blasting machine, used to detonate explosives
- A component of a syringe
- Plunger (pinball), a spring-loaded rod used to launch balls in pinball
- The Plunger, a 1920 American film
- USS Plunger, four United States Navy submarines
- Plunger-class submarine, an early class of United States Navy submarines
- The Plungers, an obsolete nickname for the Household Cavalry
See also
edit- French press or coffee plunger, a simple coffee brewing device
- Plunger brake or spoon brake, probably the first type of bicycle brake
- Plunger lift, a natural gas well deliquification techniques
- Plunger mute, the rubber part of a plumbing plunger, or a similar device, used as a musical mute
- Plunger suspension, used on motorcycles before and immediately after World War II
- Plunge (disambiguation)