plural bungholes
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Another side effect, beer farts, might earn you an offer for a bung — the large cork that seals a cask’s bunghole to allow beer to ferment properly.
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Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2013
Coover snaps on a latex glove and reaches up into literature’s bunghole, as if to turn the whole project inside out.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
Meanwhile, the gasket attached around the bunghole to create a seal that keeps out oxygen (an enemy of fresh beer) also creates the pressure to push beer out of the barrel and into the tap line.
—Matt Allyn, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2017
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Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2013
Coover snaps on a latex glove and reaches up into literature’s bunghole, as if to turn the whole project inside out.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
Meanwhile, the gasket attached around the bunghole to create a seal that keeps out oxygen (an enemy of fresh beer) also creates the pressure to push beer out of the barrel and into the tap line.
—Matt Allyn, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2017
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bunghole
noun
bung·hole
ˈbəŋ-ˌhōl 
: a hole for filling or emptying a barrel
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