slug out

English

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To engage in a match, fight, battle, argument or competition.

   They slugged out two wins last month.

2. (intransitive, of a match, fight, battle, etc.) To be fought or competed.

   It was a victory slugged out by the French.

3. (slang, baseball) To hit a ball.

   He slugged out a homerun in the second inning.

4. (transitive) To write down with a typewriter.
5. (transitive, obsolete, printing) To print (something) using slugs (A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine).
6. (transitive, screenwriting) To add a slug (A block of text at the beginning of a scene), write a scene with a slug or write many slugs in a script.
7. (filmmaking, transitive, intransitive) To add directions (such as for sound effects) to an animation script.