ply sb with sth Definition In English

• 0 to keep giving a person something, usually food or drink:

  • We plied Charlie with questions about his trip round the world.

  • John's been plying me with drinks all evening.

• 1 to keep giving a person something in order to persuade them to do something:

  • They use marketing tricks such as plying consumers with special discounts to get them to shop early.