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Definition of Slug

1. Noun. A projectile that is fired from a gun.

2. Verb. Strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat. "The fighter managed to slug his opponent"; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out"

3. 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.

4. Verb. Be idle; exist in a changeless situation. "He slugged in bed all morning"

5. Noun. A counterfeit coin.

6. Noun. An idle slothful person.

7. Noun. An amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped. "He took a slug of hard liquor"

8. Noun. A strip of type metal used for spacing.

9. Noun. Any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell.

10. Noun. (boxing) a blow with the fist. "I gave him a clout on his nose"

Definition of Slug

1. n. A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

2. v. i. To move slowly; to lie idle.

3. v. t. To make sluggish.

4. v. t. To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.

5. 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.

Definition of Slug

1. to strike heavily [v SLUGGED, SLUGGING, SLUGS]

Medical Definition of Slug

1. 1. A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard. 2. A hindrance; an obstruction. 3. 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. 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. "His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover." (Pepys) 6. [Perhaps a different word] An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun. 7. 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. 8. Any nudibranch mollusk. A holothurian. Slug caterpillar. Same as Slugworm. Origin: OE. Slugge slothful, sluggen to be slothful; cf. LG. Slukk low-spirited, sad, E. Slack, slouch, D. Slak, slek, a snail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slug

sludged blood sludges sludgier sludgiest sludging sludgy slue slued slueing slues

sluff sluffed sluffing sluffs slug (current term) slug (current term) slugabed slugabeds slugfest slugfests

sluggard sluggardly sluggardness sluggardnesses sluggards slugged slugger sluggers slugging sluggish

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