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Slug

//slʌɡ// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
  2. 2
    A hard blow, usually with the fist.
  3. 3
    A special-purpose security of the State and Local Government Series. US, informal
  4. 4
    (boxing) a blow with the fist wordnet
  5. 5
    A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. obsolete
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  1. 6
    any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell wordnet
  2. 7
    A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.

    "[…] all our Ammunition was spent. Those of us who had Money made Slugs of it; their next Shift was to take the middle Screws out of their Guns, and charge their Pieces with them."

  3. 8
    a projectile that is fired from a gun wordnet
  4. 9
    A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
  5. 10
    a strip of type metal used for spacing wordnet
  6. 11
    A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
  7. 12
    an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped wordnet
  8. 13
    A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
  9. 14
    an idle slothful person wordnet
  10. 15
    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.
  11. 16
    a counterfeit coin wordnet
  12. 17
    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. rare

    "The average slug has a mass of around 0.00002 slugs."

  13. 18
    a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms wordnet
  14. 19
    A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.

    "This is perhaps best done by considering a unit cell consisting of one bubble and part of the liquid slugs on each side of it…"

  15. 20
    A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
  16. 21
    An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
  17. 22
    A black screen used to separate broadcast items.
  18. 23
    A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
  19. 24
    A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes. regional
  20. 25
    A hitchhiking commuter. US, slang
  21. 26
    The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.

    "Slugs are better than just appending the document ID to the URL, as they are readable and understandable by visitors. They are also an important part of a good SEO. So that we can use slugs, every slug has to be unique."

  22. 27
    A hindrance, an obstruction. obsolete

    "money would be stirring, if it were not for this slug"

  23. 28
    A ship that sails slowly.

    "His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all sluggs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover."

  24. 29
    A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
  25. 30
    An infertile egg of a reptile.
Verb
  1. 1
    To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
  2. 2
    To hit very hard, usually with the fist. transitive

    "He insulted my mother, so I slugged him."

  3. 3
    strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat wordnet
  4. 4
    To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.

    ""We believe in car-pooling, but let's do it without restricting traffic. ..." Sam Snyder, 51, of Burke, who has been slugging to his job at the US Customs ...."

  5. 5
    be idle; exist in a changeless situation wordnet
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  1. 6
    To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel. intransitive
  2. 7
    To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle. intransitive, obsolete

    "To slug in slouth and sensuall delights."

  3. 8
    To load with a slug or slugs. transitive

    "to slug a gun"

  4. 9
    To make sluggish.

    "So little do we fear , you slug you"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”). Compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch. The sense of a hitchhiking commuter is from the sense of a counterfeit bus token. Bus operators considered sluggers to be cheating as if they were using counterfeit tokens.

Etymology 2

Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”). Compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch. The sense of a hitchhiking commuter is from the sense of a counterfeit bus token. Bus operators considered sluggers to be cheating as if they were using counterfeit tokens.

Etymology 3

Uncertain. Perhaps somehow from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“a blow, strike”). If so, then cognate with slay and slaughter; also German Schlag (“blow, hit”) and Dutch slag (“blow, strike”). Also compare slog.

Etymology 4

Uncertain. Perhaps somehow from Proto-Germanic *slagiz (“a blow, strike”). If so, then cognate with slay and slaughter; also German Schlag (“blow, hit”) and Dutch slag (“blow, strike”). Also compare slog.

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