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.
Advertisement
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.
- 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.
- In the land slugs, the shell is reduced or absent, and the body is streamlined.
Advertisement
Advertisement