Definitions for slug
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. bullet, slugnoun

   a projectile that is fired from a gun

2. slugnoun

   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

3. slugnoun

   a counterfeit coin

4. sluggard, slugnoun

   an idle slothful person

5. slugnoun

   an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped

   "he took a slug of hard liquor"

6. type slug, slugnoun

   a strip of type metal used for spacing

7. slugnoun

   any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell

8. punch, clout, poke, lick, biff, slugverb

   (boxing) a blow with the fist

   "I gave him a clout on his nose"

9. slug, slog, swigverb

   strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat

   "He slugged me so hard that I passed out"

10. idle, laze, slug, stagnateverb

    be idle; exist in a changeless situation

    "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. slugnoun

   Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell

2. slugnoun

   A lazy person, a sluggard.

3. slugnoun

   A bullet (projectile).

4. slugnoun

   A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.

5. slugnoun

   A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.

6. slugnoun

   A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story

7. slugnoun

   the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/su00B2) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.

8. slugnoun

   A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.

9. slugnoun

   A black screen.

10. slugverb

    To drink quickly; to gulp.

11. slugverb

    To down a shot.

12. slugverb

    To hit very hard, usually with the fist.

13. slugverb

    casual carpooling; forming ad hoc, informal carpools for purposes of commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.

14. slugnoun

    A piece of type metal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.

15. slugnoun

    A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SLUGnoun

   Etymology: slug, Danish, and slock, Dutch, signify a glutton, and thence one that has the sloth of a glutton.

   1. An idler; a drone; a slow, heavy, sleepy, lazy wretch.

   Fie, what a slug is Hastings, that he comes not! William Shakespeare.

   2. An hindrance; an obstruction.

   Usury dulls and damps all improvements, wherein money would be stirring, if it were not for this slug. Francis Bacon.

   3. A kind of slow creeping snail.4. [ Slecg , an hammerhead, Saxon.]A cylindrical or oval piece of metal shot from a gun.

   When fractures are made with bullets or slugs, there the scalp and cranium are driven in together. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

   As, forc’d from wind-guns, lead itself can fly,
   And pond’rous slugs cut swiftly through the sky. Alexander Pope.

2. To Slugverb

   To lie idle; to play the drone; to move slowly.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   All he did was to deceive good knights,
   And draw them from pursuit of praise and fame,
   To slug in sloth and sensual delights,
   And end their days with irrenowned shame. Fairy Queen.

   He lay not all night slugging in a cabbin under his mantle, but used commonly to keep others waking to defend their lives. Edmund Spenser.

   One went slugging on with a thousand cares. Roger L'Estrange.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Slug

   Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word slug is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a small internal shell, particularly sea slugs and semislugs (this is in contrast to the common name snail, which applies to gastropods that have a coiled shell large enough that they can fully retract their soft parts into it). Various taxonomic families of land slugs form part of several quite different evolutionary lineages, which also include snails. Thus, the various families of slugs are not closely related, despite a superficial similarity in the overall body form. The shell-less condition has arisen many times independently as an example of convergent evolution, and thus the category "slug" is polyphyletic.

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1. slug

   A slug is a unit of mass in the Imperial system, primarily used in the United States for measuring force. It is defined as the amount of force that accelerates a one-pound mass to one foot per second per second. However, the term "slug" can also refer to a variety of terrestrial mollusk with a soft, unsegmented body that lacks a shell, or has a small internal shell, often found in damp environments. In regards to journalism, a slug refers to a short name given to an article that is in production. Furthermore, in the manufacturing industry, a slug can be a piece of metal that is leftover after a shape has been punched out of it.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Slugnoun

   a drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard

2. Slugnoun

   a hindrance; an obstruction

3. Slugnoun

   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

4. Slugnoun

   any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug

5. Slugnoun

   a ship that sails slowly

6. Slugnoun

   an irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun

7. Slugnoun

   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

8. Slugverb

   to move slowly; to lie idle

9. Slugverb

   to make sluggish

10. Slugverb

    to load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun

11. Slugverb

    to strike heavily

12. Slugverb

    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

13. Etymology: [OE. slugge slothful, sluggen to be slothful; cf. LG. slukk low-spirited, sad, E. slack, slouch, D. slak, slek, a snail.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Slug

   Slug is a common name for an apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word "slug" is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, has a very reduced shell, or has only a small internal shell. Slugs exist on land and in the sea, and there is even one genus of freshwater slugs, Acochlidium. The unadorned word "slug" is however applied primarily to land slugs, whereas slugs from the sea or from freshwater are usually referred to as "sea slugs" or"freshwater slugs". Land gastropods with a shell that is not quite vestigial, but is too small to retract into, are known as semislugs. The various taxonomic families of slugs form part of several quite different evolutionary lineages which also include snails. Thus, for example, the various families of land slugs are not very closely related to one another, despite a superficial similarity in the overall body form. The shell-less condition has arisen many times independently during the evolutionary past, and thus the category "slug" is emphatically a polyphyletic one.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.]

2. 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.]

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. slugnoun

   A bullet. "I'm gonna put a slug in my fu**in' head!" -- Insane Clown Posse (Suicide Hotline)

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EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Slug

   in general, any larva that has a slimy viscid appearance, and the body closely applied to the food plant: more specifically, the larvae of certain saw-flies and of some Coleoptera.

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   • Mass Unit
   • Projectile
   • Type Metal

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of slug in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of slug in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of slug in a Sentence

1. Paul Hetherington:

   So there is a high likelihood that we are going to see a slug explosion given that many of their predators are in decline.

2. Robert Full:

   You might think the best shape changers are kind of like an octopus or a worm or a slug but yet we know that cockroaches can go through these tiny little cracks.

3. Katherine Timpf of Fox News:

   The father who flipped out about it, 'What am I going to tell my kid about why she's in that outfit? ' tell them that a giant slug captured me and forced me to wear that stupid outfit, and then I killed him because I didn't like it. And then I took it off. Backstage.

4. Bruce Thomson:

   The immediate impact is largely passed, the slug of contaminated water has washed through the system.

5. Jeffrey Thompson:

   We carried out a number of analyses to work out whether Sollasina was more closely related to sea cucumbers or sea urchins, to our surprise, the results suggest it was an ancient sea cucumber. This helps us understand the changes that occurred during the early evolution of the group, which ultimately gave rise to the slug-like forms we see today.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=slug
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Slug
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=slug
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slug
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=slug
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=slug
9. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=slug