SLUG

punch, clout, poke, lick, biff, slug

(noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist; “I gave him a clout on his nose”

slug

(noun) any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell

bullet, slug

(noun) a projectile that is fired from a gun

slug

(noun) an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped; “he took a slug of hard liquor”

sluggard, slug

(noun) an idle slothful person

slug

(noun) a counterfeit coin

slug

(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

slug, slog, swig

(verb) strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; “He slugged me so hard that I passed out”

idle, laze, slug, stagnate

(verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation; “The old man sat and stagnated on his porch”; “He slugged in bed all morning”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

slug (plural slugs)

Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. [from early 18^th c.]

(obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. [from early 15^th c.]

A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. [from 1620s]

A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.

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/s²) 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.

(railways) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors but lacks a prime mover.

(television editing) A black screen.

(metal typesetting) 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.

Synonyms

• (a quantity of a drink): See also drink

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

Noun

slug (plural slugs)

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)

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

Anagrams

• Guls, LUGs, lugs

Source: Wiktionary

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Slug, n. Etym: [OE. slugge slothful, sluggen to be slothful; cf. LG. slukk low-spirited, sad, E. slack, slouch, D. slak, slek, a snail.]

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

2. A hindrance; an obstruction. [Obs.] Bacon.

3. (Zoöl.)

Definition: 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. (Zoöl.)

Definition: 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.] Halliwell. His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover. Pepys.

6. Etym: [Perhaps a different word.]

Definition: An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.

7. (Print.)

Definition: 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. (Zoöl.) (a) Any nudibranch mollusk. (b) A holothurian.

– Slug caterpillar. Same as Slugworm.

Slug, v. i.

Definition: To move slowly; to lie idle. [Obs.] To slug in sloth and sensual delight. Spenser.

Slug, v. t.

Definition: To make sluggish. [Obs.] Milton.

Slug, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slugged; p. pr. & vb. n. Slugging.]

1. To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.

2. To strike heavily. [Cant or Slang]

Slug, v. i.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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