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Mr Fizzion wrote:
I think you must be making this up! Neither wikipedia nor any of the
online dictionaries know the term. "Plug top"...so what happened to
the rest of the plug?

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Ind...ops/index.html

I have never heard anyone use the term "spare way", though I have to
admit it's quite common to say "4 way extenstion lead". "Spare socket"
is what "normal" people say... :-)))

It's in common use too.

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