Usually means: Gastropods without shells, often slimy.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word slug's:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. slugs: Merriam-Webster
  2. slugs, slugs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slugs: Collins English Dictionary
  4. slugs: Vocabulary.com
  5. Slugs, slug's, slugs: Wordnik
  6. slugs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. slugs: Wiktionary
  8. slugs: Dictionary.com
  9. slugs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Slugs (novel), Slugs, The Slugs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Slugs: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. slugs: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Slugs: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. slugs: FreeDictionary.org
  15. Slugs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SLUGs: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  2. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  3. slugs: Legal dictionary
  4. SLUGS: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slugs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slugs: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SLUGS: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slugs: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (SLUG)

noun:  Any of many 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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