Definition of slug Slug
/slʌˈg/ - [slug] - slug
We found 45 definitions of slug from 6 different sources.
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What does slug mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: slugs |
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| slug - any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell | ||
| gastropod, univalve a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes | ||
| slug - an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped; "he took a slug of hard liquor" | ||
| slug - a counterfeit coin | ||
| slug - 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 | ||
| slug - (boxing) a blow with the fist; "I gave him a clout on his nose" | ||
| punch, clout, poke, lick, biff | ||
| blow forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth; "he gave his nose a loud blow"; "he blew out all the candles with a single puff" | ||
| pugilism, boxing, fisticuffs fighting with the fists | ||
| counterpunch, parry, counter a return punch (especially by a boxer) | ||
| knockout punch, ko punch, sunday punch, haymaker a hard punch that renders the opponent unable to continue boxing | ||
| hook a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent | ||
| jab a quick short straight punch | ||
| rabbit punch a short chopping blow to the back of the neck | ||
| slug - a projectile that is fired from a gun | ||
| bullet | ||
| missile, projectile a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control | ||
| cartridge ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun | ||
| dumdum, dumdum bullet a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound | ||
| full metal jacket a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper) | ||
| rifle ball a bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape | ||
| slug - an idle slothful person | ||
| sluggard | ||
| do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, bum person who does no work; "a lazy bum" | ||
| slug - a strip of type metal used for spacing | ||
| type slug | ||
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| slug - strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out" | ||
| slog, swig | ||
| hit pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars" | ||
| slug - be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" | ||
| idle, laze, stagnate | ||
| work arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times" | ||
| moon on, moon around, moon expose one's buttocks to; "moon the audience" | ||
| ride the bench, warm the bench be out of the game; "Miller was riding the bench in Saturday's game" | ||
| daydream, moon have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming" | ||
| arse about, lounge around, lounge about, loll around, waste one's time, frig around, bum around, bum about, loaf, loll, bum, arse around, fuck off be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day" | ||
| lie about, lie around hang around idly; "She did all the work while he lay around" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- slug (Noun)
Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no or only rudimentary shell. - slug (Noun)
A lazy person, a sluggard. - slug (Noun)
A bullet projectile. - slug (Noun)
A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. - slug (Noun)
A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. - slug (Noun)
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. - slug (Noun)
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. - slug (Noun)
A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material. - slug (Noun)
A black screen. - slug (Noun)
A piece of type metal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error. - slug (Noun)
A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes. - slug (Verb)
To drink quickly; to gulp. - slug (Verb)
To down a shot . - slug (Verb)
To hit very hard, usually with the fist. - slug (Verb)
To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc , informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking. - slug (Verb)
To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel. - slug (Verb)
To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle. - slug (Verb)
To load with a slug or slugs. - slug (Verb)
To make sluggish.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- slug (n.)
A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard. - slug (n.)
A hindrance; an obstruction. - slug (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. - slug (n.)
Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug. - slug (n.)
A ship that sails slowly. - slug (n.)
An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun. - slug (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. - slug (v. i.)
To move slowly; to lie idle. - slug (v. t.)
To make sluggish. - slug (v. t.)
To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun. - slug (v. t.)
To strike heavily. - slug (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.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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slug
slug, 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. [Scand., Dan. slug, sluk, drooping, Norw. sloka, to slouch; Low Ger. slukkern, to be loose; allied to slack.] -
slug
slug, n. a cylindrical or oval piece of metal for firing from a gun: a piece of crude metal. [Prob. from slug above, or slug=slog, to hit hard.]
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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slug
A piece of lead of any shape, to be fired from a blunderbuss. To fire a slug; to drink a dram.
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