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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)
- Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. [from early 18 c.]
- (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. [from early 15 c.]
- A bullet (projectile). [from 1620s]
- A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. [from 1880s]
- A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. [from 1750s]
- (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]
- (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.
- A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
- A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
- (television editing) A black screen.
- (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.
- (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
- (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
- (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
- (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
- A ship that sails slowly.
Verb
slug (third-person singular simple present slugs, present participle slugging, simple past and past participle slugged)
- To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
- To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
- (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.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
- (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
- To make sluggish.
Etymology 2
Uncertain, possibly a cognate of slaughter.
Noun
slug (plural slugs)
Verb
slug (third-person singular simple present slugs, present participle slugging, simple past and past participle slugged)
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