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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Snail (without a shell).[2]. Drone, sluggard, idler, slow-back.
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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
- She don't throw much of a slug but you can hit things with her. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The green damp hung upon the low walls; the tracks of the snail and slug glistened in the light of the candle; but all was still as death. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The Moors have some small silver coins and also some silver slugs worth a dollar each. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At that day fifty dollar gold pieces, not the issue of the government, were common on the Pacific coaSt. They were called slugs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She thought of the wood, and stole towards it, heedless of long grass and briers: of worms, snails, and slugs, and all the creeping things that be. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The blunderbus is loaded with slugs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Order given; with the sarcastic addition (from Mr. Smallweed) of Without slugs, Polly! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was a large, short, funnel-shaped muzzle-loader, and loaded with nails, slugs, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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