Associations to the word «Slug»

Wiktionary

SLUG, noun. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell
SLUG, noun. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
SLUG, noun. A bullet (projectile).
SLUG, noun. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
SLUG, noun. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
SLUG, 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.
SLUG, noun. (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.
SLUG, noun. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
SLUG, noun. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
SLUG, noun. (television editing) A black screen.
SLUG, noun. (metal typesetting) A piece of type metal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.
SLUG, noun. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
SLUG, noun. (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
SLUG, noun. (obsolete) A hindrance; an obstruction.
SLUG, noun. A ship that sails slowly.
SLUG, noun. (US) (slang) (District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
SLUG, verb. To drink quickly; to gulp.
SLUG, verb. To down a shot.
SLUG, verb. (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
SLUG, verb. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
SLUG, 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.
SLUG, verb. (obsolete) (intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
SLUG, verb. (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
SLUG, verb. To make sluggish.
SLUG AWAY, verb. (idiomatic) (intransitive) To work very hard (at); to toil
SLUG BUG, noun. Punch buggy
SLUG IT OUT, verb. To have an intense argument or fight until one side prevails.
SLUG LINE, noun. A line of abbreviated text at the beginning of each scene in a screenplay that describes the location and time of day
SLUG LINE, noun. A queue for "casual carpoolers" (slugs) commuting in the Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia metropolitan area
SLUG SLIME, noun. Slime produced by slugs.

Dictionary definition

SLUG, noun. A projectile that is fired from a gun.
SLUG, noun. A unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms.
SLUG, noun. A counterfeit coin.
SLUG, noun. An idle slothful person.
SLUG, noun. An amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped; "he took a slug of hard liquor".
SLUG, noun. A strip of type metal used for spacing.
SLUG, noun. Any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell.
SLUG, noun. (boxing) a blow with the fist; "I gave him a clout on his nose".
SLUG, verb. Strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out".
SLUG, verb. Be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats