slug
IPA: sɫˈʌg
noun
- Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
- (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
- A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
- A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
- A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
- A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
- (journalism) 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.
- (physics, rare) 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.
- A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
- A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
- (rail transport) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
- (television editing) A black screen.
- (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
- (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
- (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
- (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
- (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
- A ship that sails slowly.
- A hard blow, usually with the fist.
- (US, finance, informal) A special-purpose security of the State and Local Government Series.
verb
- To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
- To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
- (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
- (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
- To make sluggish.
- (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
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Examples of "slug" in Sentences
- I have three slugs as my pet.
- The size of the slug varies from 10 to 15 cm.
- The mucus of the brown slug is thin, clear, and colorless.
- The mucus of the slug is highly distasteful to many animals.
- I deter slugs in the vegetable garden by not mulching the plants.
- The texture of the dorsum of the slug can be smooth or very rough.
- He was weakened by the transit and vulnerable to the obedience slugs.
- On 2nd thought, the idea of dbadass being teabagged by a slug is gross!
- The action of the slug is to reduce bearing rattle in a rotating member.
- In the induction billet heater, the whole of the billet or slug is heated.
- You have a valid point, I have asked this of others in slug hunting forums.
- In the land slugs, the shell is reduced or absent, and the body is streamlined.
- For example, I rifle fired from a tree usually means the slug is going to impact the ground.
- I grew up in "slug only" country and killed lots of deer with 12 ga. foster types thru the years.
- In the thickest of my fight with the slugs some one said to me, Everything living has its enemy; the enemy of the slug is the toad.
- The crawling speed of a slug may also depend on air temperature and humidity, whether or not the slug is also grazing on the tree surface while crawling, its species and size and the slope as well as the microscopic characteristics of the surface.
- This slug is then followed successively by varying quantities of Diesel Fuel, Kerosene, other intermediate products, ordinary grade Gasolene, high octane, premium and Aviation Gasolenes, each succeeding product pushing the others on ahead in the line.
- And what could happen when condensation builds up on the inside of those pipes is that the velocity of the steam picks up those little droplets of water, turns them into what they refer to as a slug and it can fire that slug at 100 miles an hour against a standing part of that pipe, like an elbow or something, and it can be like a hammer punch right to the inside of that pipe.