slug

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2 Translations 1.2.3 See also 1.3 Verb 1.4 Anagrams 2 Swedish 2.1 Adjective

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

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• enPR: slŭg, IPA: /slʌɡ/, SAMPA: /slVg/

  Rhymes: -ʌɡ

[edit] Noun

slug (plural slugs)

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1. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell
2. (slang) A lazy person, a sluggard.
3. A bullet (projectile).
4. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
5. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
6. A title, name or header
7. (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.
8. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A discrete quantity of one fluid that flows through the line surrounded by another.
9. (television editing) A black screen.
10. (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.
11. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.

[edit] Derived terms

• black slug
• sea slug

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

• (gastropod): snail

[edit] Verb

to slug (third-person singular simple present slugs, present participle slugging, simple past and past participle slugged)

1. To drink quickly; to gulp.
2. To down a shot.
3. (transitive) To hit very hard.

   He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.

   The batter slugged the ball out of the park.

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of glsu
• lugs

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Adjective

slug

1. cunning