slug

1. 1

   Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.

2. 2

   A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.obsolete

3. 3

   A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.

   • […] all our Ammunition was spent. Those of us who had Money made Slugs of it; their next Shift was to take the middle Screws out of their Guns, and charge their Pieces with them.
4. 4

   A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.

5. 5

   A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.

6. 6

   A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.

7. 7

   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.

8. 8

   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.rare

   • The average slug has a mass of around 0.00002 slugs.
9. 9

   A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.

   • This is perhaps best done by considering a unit cell consisting of one bubble and part of the liquid slugs on each side of it…
   • When these layers are recovered they inevitably result in a slug of sawdust which goes into the digester and tends to plug the screens in a Kamyr digester.
10. 10

    A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.

syn. nip & Thesaurus:drink

1. 1

   To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.

2. 2

   To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.

   • "We believe in car-pooling, but let's do it without restricting traffic. ..." Sam Snyder, 51, of Burke, who has been slugging to his job at the US Customs ....
   • no sane person would attempt to commute that far every day. Sure they do. I've often slugged to Fredericksburg and back. The VRE carries hundreds of people per day, and the I-95 HOV lanes carry tens of thousands of people each day.
3. 3

   To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.intransitive

4. 4

   To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.intransitiveobsolete

   • To slug in slouth and sensuall delights.
5. 5

   To load with a slug or slugs.transitive

   • to slug a gun
6. 6

   To make sluggish.

   • So little do we fear , you slug you

1. 1

   A hard blow, usually with the fist.

1. 1

   To hit very hard, usually with the fist.transitive

   • He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
   • The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.