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Definition slug

Etymology 1

Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge, probably of Old Norse origin; compare dialectal Norwegian sluggje (“heavy, slow person”).

Noun

slug (plural slugs)

  1. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. [from early 18 c.]
  2. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. [from early 15 c.]
  3. A bullet (projectile). [from 1620s]
  4. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. [from 1880s]
  5. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. [from 1750s]
  6. (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. [from 1920s]
  7. (physics, rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s˛) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
  8. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
  9. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
  10. (television editing) A black screen.
  11. (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
  12. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
  13. (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
  14. (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
  15. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
  16. A ship that sails slowly.
Verb

slug (third-person singular simple present slugs, present participle slugging, simple past and past participle slugged)

  1. To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
  2. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
  3. (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.
  4. (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
  5. (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
  6. To make sluggish.

Etymology 2

Uncertain, possibly a cognate of slaughter.

Noun

slug (plural slugs)

  1. A hard blow, usually with the fist. [from 1830s]
Verb

slug (third-person singular simple present slugs, present participle slugging, simple past and past participle slugged)

  1. (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.

Results 374 Words with the letters SLUG

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8 letter words with the letters SLUG 
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6 letter words with the letters SLUG 
ALGUMS 13
ALMUGS 13
BUGLES 13
BULGES 13
FUGLES 13
GALLUS 11
GAULTS 10
GHOULS 12
GLOMUS 13
GLOUTS 10
GLUERS 10
GLUMES 13
GLUONS 11
GRUELS 10
GUILDS 11
GUILES 10
GUILTS 10
GULAGS 12
GUNSEL 11
KLUGES 14
KUGELS 14
LAUGHS 12
LOUGHS 12
LUGERS 10
LUNGES 11
LUNGIS 11
MOGULS 13
SLOUGH 12
SLUDGE 11
SLUDGY 13
SLUING 11
SMUGLY 15
SNUGLY 13
UGLIES 10
VALGUS 14
VULGUS 15
5 letter words with the letters SLUG 
GLUGS 11
GULFS 12
GULLS 10
GULPS 12
LUNGS 10
PLUGS 12
SLUNG 10
4 letter words with the letters SLUG 
GULS 8
LUGS 8
SLUG 8
3 letter words with the letters SLUG 
GUL 7
LUG 7
2 letter words with the letters SLUG 
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