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Slug   /sləg/   Listen
Slug

noun
1.
A projectile that is fired from a gun.  Synonym: bullet.
2.
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.
3.
A counterfeit coin.
4.
An idle slothful person.  Synonym: sluggard.
5.
An amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped.
6.
A strip of type metal used for spacing.  Synonym: type slug.
7.
Any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell.
8.
(boxing) a blow with the fist.  Synonyms: biff, clout, lick, poke, punch.
verb
(past & past part. slugged; pres. part. slugging)
1.
Strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat.  Synonyms: slog, swig.
2.
Be idle; exist in a changeless situation.  Synonyms: idle, laze, stagnate.  "He slugged in bed all morning"



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"Slug" Quotes from Famous Books



... runs up and sticks the irons on Reeve. Then he goes into the house and finds Armstrong lying shot through the heart. Clear as day! Reeve loses a lot of money, and when it comes to a pinch he hates to see that money gone when he could get it back for the price of one slug. So he outs with his gun and shoots Armstrong. And the worst part of it was that Armstrong didn't have no gun on at the time. The sheriff found Armstrong's gun hanging on the wall along with his cartridge belt. Yep, it was ...
— Bull Hunter • Max Brand

... slackened, what insulting expressions, instantly understood by the sensitive animals! "Go on, you wretched snail! Confound you, you slug! I'll roast ...
— Michael Strogoff - or, The Courier of the Czar • Jules Verne

... he was gliding in over the window-sill, slowly and softly like a huge black slug, and ended by seating ...
— The New Forest Spy • George Manville Fenn

... disappointed to see her heavin' a two-foot wave ahead of her—maybe more, maybe less—along both banks; an' next it might annoy 'im a bit when these two waves fell together an' raised a weight o' water full on her bows, whereby she 'd travel like a slug, an' the 'arder he drove the more she wouldn' go; let be that she'd give 'im no time to cuss, even when I arsked 'im perlitely what it felt like to steer a monkey by the tail. Next an' last, if he should 'appen to find room for a look astern at the banks, it might vex ...
— True Tilda • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... legs, her ankles hang over her shoes, her feet stink, she breed lice, a mere changeling, a very monster, an oaf imperfect, her whole complexion savours, a harsh voice, incondite gesture, vile gait, a vast virago, or an ugly tit, a slug, a fat fustilugs, a truss, a long lean rawbone, a skeleton, a sneaker (si qua latent meliora puta), and to thy judgment looks like a merd in a lantern, whom thou couldst not fancy for a world, but hatest, loathest, ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior


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