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Definition of 'slug'English
Noun
( en-noun)
Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell
(obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
- (Shakespeare) Why, lamb! Why, lady! Fie, you slug-a-bed. Romeo and Juliet
A bullet (projectile).
A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
(journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
(physics|rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
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A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
(television editing) A black screen.
(metal typesetting) A piece of type metal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.
(regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
(web design) The last part of a (clean URL), the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
(obsolete) A hindrance; an obstruction.
- (Francis Bacon)
A ship that sails slowly.
* Samuel Pepys
- His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.
- (Halliwell)
Synonyms
* (a quantity of a drink) See also
Derived terms
* black slug
* sea slug
* slug line
Related terms
* lug
* sluggard
See also
* (gastropod) snail
Verb
( slugg)
To drink quickly; to gulp.
To down a shot.
To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
- He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
- The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.
To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
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(of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
(obsolete) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
* Spenser
- To slug in sloth and sensual delight.
To load with a slug or slugs.
- to slug a gun
To make sluggish.
- (Milton)
Derived terms
* slug it out
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