Slug

[slʌg] or [slʌɡ]

Definition

(noun.) any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell.

(noun.) an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped; 'he took a slug of hard liquor'.

(noun.) a counterfeit coin.

(noun.) 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.

(verb.) strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; 'He slugged me so hard that I passed out'.

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Definition

(n.) A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

(n.) A hindrance; an obstruction.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.

(n.) Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.

(n.) A ship that sails slowly.

(n.) An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.

(n.) A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.

(v. i.) To move slowly; to lie idle.

(v. t.) To make sluggish.

(v. t.) To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.

(v. t.) To strike heavily.

(v. i.) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; -- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.

Edited by Bernice

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Snail (without a shell).[2]. Drone, sluggard, idler, slow-back.

Inputed by Bertha

Definition

n. a cylindrical or oval piece of metal for firing from a gun: a piece of crude metal.

n. a heavy lazy fellow: a name for land-molluscs of order Pulmonata with shell rudimentary or absent—they do great damage to garden crops: any hinderance.—ns. Slug′-a-bed (Shak.) one who is fond of lying in bed a sluggard; Slug′gard one habitually idle or inactive.—v.t. Slug′gardise (Shak.) to make lazy.—adj. Slug′gish habitually lazy: slothful: having little motion: having little or no power.—adv. Slug′gishly.—n. Slug′gishness.

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Examples

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