What does SLUG mean?
Definitions for SLUG
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word SLUG.
Princeton's WordNet
bullet, slugnoun
a projectile that is fired from a gun
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
slugnoun
a counterfeit coin
sluggard, slugnoun
an idle slothful person
slugnoun
an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped
"he took a slug of hard liquor"
type slug, slugnoun
a strip of type metal used for spacing
slugnoun
any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
punch, clout, poke, lick, biff, slugverb
(boxing) a blow with the fist
"I gave him a clout on his nose"
slug, slog, swigverb
strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
"He slugged me so hard that I passed out"
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"
Wiktionary
slugnoun
Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell
slugnoun
A lazy person, a sluggard.
slugnoun
A bullet (projectile).
slugnoun
A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
slugnoun
A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
slugnoun
A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story
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.
slugnoun
A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
slugnoun
A black screen.
slugverb
To drink quickly; to gulp.
slugverb
To down a shot.
slugverb
To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
slugverb
casual carpooling; forming ad hoc, informal carpools for purposes of commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
slugnoun
A piece of type metal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.
slugnoun
A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
SLUGnoun
Etymology: slug, Danish, and slock, Dutch, signify a glutton, and thence one that has the sloth of a glutton.
Fie, what a slug is Hastings, that he comes not! William Shakespeare.
Usury dulls and damps all improvements, wherein money would be stirring, if it were not for this slug. Francis Bacon.
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.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.
Wikipedia
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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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 Dictionary
Slugnoun
a drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard
Slugnoun
a hindrance; an obstruction
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
Slugnoun
any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug
Slugnoun
a ship that sails slowly
Slugnoun
an irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun
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
Slugverb
to move slowly; to lie idle
Slugverb
to make sluggish
Slugverb
to load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun
Slugverb
to strike heavily
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
Etymology: [OE. slugge slothful, sluggen to be slothful; cf. LG. slukk low-spirited, sad, E. slack, slouch, D. slak, slek, a snail.]
Wikidata
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 Dictionary
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.]
Rap Dictionary
slugnoun
A bullet. "I'm gonna put a slug in my fu**in' head!" -- Insane Clown Posse (Suicide Hotline)
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Entomology
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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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of SLUG in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of SLUG in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of SLUG in a Sentence
I ’m a better runner now than I ever was before, i ’m faster. I’ve got Ironman Bruce Thomas. I do long sessions and sprint sessions and intervals. Before, I ’d just go slug it out for three hours. Having that external feedback is really underrated.
The average U.S. company is not growing that much. Earnings may be up a lot but a big slug of that is from the benefits of the Trump tax cut, the only way to outperform is to find companies that are creating their own theme.
The dreamy slug gets wings, the pessimistic caterpillar will never fly.”
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.
So there is a high likelihood that we are going to see a slug explosion given that many of their predators are in decline.
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- سبيكةArabic
- слізняк, смоўж, слімакBelarusian
- гол охлювBulgarian
- llimacCatalan, Valencian
- panák, slimákCzech
- NacktschneckeGerman
- γυμνοσάλιαγκας, σφηνάκι, λείμαξGreek
- limakoEsperanto
- limaco, babosaSpanish
- رابPersian
- etana, huikka, prikkaFinnish
- pruneau, limaceFrench
- seilideIrish
- seilcheagScottish Gaelic
- lesma, lesmeGalician
- meztelen csigaHungarian
- limaceInterlingua
- siputIndonesian
- chiocciola, lumaca, limacciaItalian
- שַׁבְּלוּלHebrew
- ナメクジ, 蛞蝓Japanese
- ಸ್ಲಗ್Kannada
- 민달팽이Korean
- limaxLatin
- šliužasLithuanian
- putoko, ngataMāori
- голичMacedonian
- slak, naaktslak, wijngaardslakDutch
- ślimakPolish
- lesmaPortuguese
- melcRomanian
- стопка, слизень, пуля, маслина, слизнякRussian
- пуж слинар, puž slinar, пуж голаћ, puž golaćSerbo-Croatian
- slimákSlovak
- polž slinarSlovene
- ligavecAlbanian
- snigelSwedish
- слизень, слизняк, слимакUkrainian
- con sên lãi, sên lãiVietnamese
- slChinese
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