slug
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Originally referred to a lazy person, from Middle English slugge, probably of Scandinavian/Old Norse origin; compare dialectal Norwegian sluggje (“heavy, slow person”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
slug (plural slugs)
- Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell
- (slang) A lazy person, a sluggard.
- A bullet (projectile).
- 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, rarely used) 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.
- 1973, Pulp & paper international, volume 15:
- When these layers are recovered they inevitably result in a slug of sawdust which goes into the digester and tends to plug the screens in a Kamyr digester.
- 1987, United States. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, United States. Board of Mine Operations Appeals, Occupational safety and health decisions:
- Then, just a few nights before August 6, Gilbert testified that a "slug of sand-rock" weighing an estimate of one to two tons fell on his continuous miner as he was taking a cut, approximately fifteen feet from where he was standing.
- 1998, Orrin H. Pilkey; Katharine L. Dixon, The Corps and the Shore, page 159:
- Tvpically, enough sand is emplaced to create a slug of sand that moves along the shore causing noticeable and somewhat dramatic local changes.
- 1998, N. A. Krylov; A. A. Bokserman, Evgeniĭ Romanovich Stavrovskiĭ, The oil industry of the former Soviet Union, page 112:
- 2005, Sam Mannan; Frank P. Lees, Lee's loss prevention in the process industries, page 16-115:
- Another phenomenon investigated was a slug of water falling through the cloud.
- 2007, William Lauer; Fred Sanchez, Disinfection of pipelines and storage facilities field guide, page 54:
- This method uses a slug of 100 mg/L chlorinated water as a slug that moves along the length of the pipeline. The slug is a percentage of the total length of the pipeline.
- 2010, Nancy E. McTigue; James M. Symons, American Water Works Association, The water dictionary: a comprehensive reference of water terminology, page 556:
- For example, a slug of iron rust might appear because of the shearing action of a high-demand flow that loosens a previously deposited iron precipitate.
- 2010, Robert A. Meyers, Extreme Environmental Events, page 1198:
- These experiments investigate the ascent of a slug of gas in a vertical liquid-filed tube featuring a flare that abruptly doubles the cross sectional area.
- 2011, Bill Calfee, The Art of Rimfire Accuracy, page 125:
- You had to learn to grab the teat up next to the udder with your thumb and side of your first finger, grab a slug of milk and progressively squeeze it down the teat past your middle finger, ring finger and little finger
- 1973, Pulp & paper international, volume 15:
- (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.
- (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
- (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
Synonyms [edit]
- (a quantity of a drink): See also Wikisaurus:drink
Derived terms [edit]
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
gastropod
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lazy person — see sluggard
shot of drink
See also [edit]
- (gastropod): snail
Verb [edit]
slug (third-person singular simple present slugs, present participle slugging, simple past and past participle slugged)
- To drink quickly; to gulp.
- To down a shot.
- (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
- He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
- The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.
- To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
- 1998 July 23, “Ramsey Vows to Find New Sites for Commuter `Slug Lines'”, Washington Post:
- "We believe in car-pooling, but let's do it without restricting traffic. ..." Sam Snyder, 51, of Burke, who has been slugging to his job at the US Customs ....
- 2002 December 13, Joshua E. Rodd, dc.urban-planning, Usenet:
- no sane person would attempt to commute that far every day. Sure they do. I've often slugged to Fredericksburg and back. The VRE carries hundreds of people per day, and the I-95 HOV lanes carry tens of thousands of people each day.
- 1998 July 23, “Ramsey Vows to Find New Sites for Commuter `Slug Lines'”, Washington Post:
- (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.
- Spenser
- To slug in sloth and sensual delight.
- Spenser
- (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
- to slug a gun
- To make sluggish.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
Derived terms [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
Manx [edit]
Verb [edit]
slug (verbal noun sluggey, past participle sluggit)
Mutation [edit]
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| slug | lug after "yn", tlug |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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Noun [edit]
slug m (genitive slug, plural sluggyn)
Mutation [edit]
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| slug | lug after "yn", tlug |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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Derived terms [edit]
Swedish [edit]
Adjective [edit]
slug
