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Slug   /sləg/   Listen
noun
Slug  n.  
1.
A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
2.
A hindrance; an obstruction. (Obs.)
3.
(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.
4.
(Zool.) Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
5.
A ship that sails slowly. (Obs.) "His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover."
6.
An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
7.
(Print.) A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.
Sea slug. (Zool.)
(a)
Any nudibranch mollusk.
(b)
A holothurian.
Slug caterpillar. Same as Slugworm.



verb
Slug  v. t.  To make sluggish. (Obs.)



Slug  v. t.  (past & past part. slugged; pres. part. slugging)  
1.
To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
2.
To strike heavily. (Cant or Slang)



Slug  v. i.  To move slowly; to lie idle. (Obs.) "To slug in sloth and sensual delight."



Slug  v. i.  To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.






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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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