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▸ noun: (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
▸ noun: A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
▸ noun: A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
▸ noun: A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
▸ noun: A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
▸ noun: A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (television editing) A black screen.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
▸ noun: (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
▸ noun: (web development, SEO) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
▸ noun: A ship that sails slowly.
▸ noun: (screenwriting) A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
▸ noun: (herpetology) An infertile egg of a reptile.
▸ verb: To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
▸ verb: To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
▸ verb: (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
▸ verb: To make sluggish.
▸ noun: A hard blow, usually with the fist.
▸ verb: (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
▸ noun: (US, finance, informal) A special-purpose security of the State and Local Government Series.
Similar:
swig,
sluggard,
slog,
bullet,
semislug,
gasteropod,
file shell,
slit-shell,
slitshell,
sea slug,
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Types:
garden slug,
brown garden slug,
grey garden slug,
yellow garden slug,
red garden slug,
black garden slug,
mole slug,
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