slug

English

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Slug.

• enPR: slŭg, IPA: /slʌɡ/, SAMPA: /slVg/
• Rhymes: -ʌɡ

Noun

slug (plural slugs)

Wikipedia

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. (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story
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.

Synonyms

• (a quantity of a drink): See also Wikisaurus:drink

Derived terms

• black slug
• sea slug

Related terms

• lug
• sluggard

Translations

gastropod

Ainu: シマイマ (simayma) Albanian: ligavec Asturian: llimiagu (ast) Bosnian: puž slinar m., puž golać m. Catalan: llimac m. Chinese: Mandarin: 鼻涕蟲 (zh), 鼻涕虫 (zh) (bítichóng) Czech: slimák (cs) Dutch: slak f., wijngaardslak f., naaktslak f. Esperanto: limako (eo) Finnish: etana (fi) French: limace (fr) f. German: Nacktschnecke (de) f. Greek: γυμνοσάλιαγκας (el) (gymnosáliagkas) n., (scientific) λείμαξ (el) (leímax) m. Hungarian: meztelen csiga (hu) Indonesian: siput (id) Interlingua: limace (ia)

Irish: seilide (ga) m. Italian: lumaca (it) f. Japanese: 蛞蝓 (なめくじ, namekuji) Lithuanian: šliužas m. Macedonian: голич (mk) (gólič) m. Maori: putoko (mi) Polish: ślimak (pl) m. Portuguese: lesma (pt) f. Romanian: melc (ro) m. Russian: слизень (ru) m. (slizjenj), слизняк (ru) m. (sliznjak) Scottish Gaelic: seilcheag (gd) f. Sicilian: limaccia f. , mignatta f. Slovene: polž slinar m. Spanish: babosa (es) f., limaco (es) m. Ukrainian: слимак (uk) m. (slymak) Venetian: liméga f.

lazy person — see sluggard

bullet

French: pruneau (fr) m.

counterfeit coin

Finnish: prikka (fi)

shot of drink

Finnish: huikka (fi)

Greek: σφηνάκι (el) (sfináki) n.

See also

• (gastropod): snail

Verb

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.

4. casual carpooling; forming ad hoc, informal carpools for purposes of commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.

Anagrams

• lugs

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Manx

Verb

slug (verbal noun sluggey, past participle sluggit)

1. to swallow, swig, slug, guzzle, draw
2. to devour, gorge, gulp
3. to engulf

Mutation

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.

Noun

slug m. (genitive slug, plural sluggyn)

1. swallow, swig, draught

Mutation

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.

Derived terms

• sluggag

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Swedish

Adjective

slug

1. cunning