Usually means: Gastropod without shell, slimy mollusk.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word slug:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. slug: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. slug, slug, slug: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slug, slug, slug, slug: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. slug: Collins English Dictionary
  5. slug: Vocabulary.com
  6. Slug, Slug, slug: Wordnik
  7. slug: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. slug: Wiktionary
  9. slug: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. slug: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. slug: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. slug: Dictionary.com
  13. slug (1), slug (2), slug (3): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. slug: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SLUG, Slug (British band), Slug (Web publishing), Slug (band), Slug (coin), Slug (comics), Slug (disambiguation), Slug (mass), Slug (projectile), Slug (publishing), Slug (railroad), Slug (rapper), Slug (song), Slug (typesetting), Slug (unit), Slug (web publishing), Slug, The Slug: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Slug: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. slug: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. slug: Rhymezone
  19. Slug: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. slug: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. slug: Free Dictionary
  22. slug: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. slug: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. slug: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. slug: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Slug (zoology), slug: Legal dictionary
  3. slug: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. slug: CCI Computer
  2. Slug (mass), Slug (zoology), slug: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Slug (zoology), slug: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SLUG: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. slug: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Slug: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. SLUG: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. slug, slug, slug, slug, slug, slug: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Slug: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. slug: Urban Dictionary
  5. Slug: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. slug: Coin Collecting
  4. SLUG: Power Engineering

(Note: See slugged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
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.

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