Slug

Noun

 * 1) Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell
 * 2)  A lazy person, a sluggard.
 * 3) A bullet  (projectile).
 * 4) A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
 * 5) A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
 * 6)  A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story
 * 7)  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.
 * 8)  A discrete quantity of one fluid that flows through the line surrounded by another.
 * 9)  A black screen.
 * 10)  A piece of type metal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.
 * 11)  A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:drink

Derived terms

 * black slug
 * sea slug

Related terms

 * lug
 * sluggard

Verb

 * 1) To drink quickly; to gulp.
 * 2) To down a shot.
 * 3)  To hit very hard.
 * He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
 * The batter slugged the ball out of the park.
 * 1) casual carpooling; forming ad hoc, informal carpools for purposes of commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.

Thesaurus
Chilopoda, Chordata, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, Intertype, Linotype, Monoplacophora, Monotype, Nemertinea, Phoronidea, baggage check, ball, bang, bar shot, bash, bat, beating, belt, biff, bird shot, blast, blow, bonk, buckshot, bullet, bum, cannon shot, cannonball, case shot, check, chop, clap, clip, clobber, clock watcher, clout, clump, cold-type typesetting, coldcock, composing, composing stick, composition, computerized typesetting, counter, coupon, crack, crossbar shot, cut, dallier, dash, dawdle, dawdler, deal, deal a blow, deck, diddler, dig, dillydallier, dint, do-nothing, dolittle, doodler, dose, dram, drone, drop, drub, drubbing, drumming, duck shot, dumdum bullet, dummy, em, em quad, en, en quad, expanding bullet, faineant, fetch, fetch a blow, five-em space, foot-dragger, four-em space, furniture, fusillade, galley chase, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, grape, grapeshot, hair space, hat check, hit, hit a clip, hot-metal typesetting, idler, imposition, jab, jolt, justification, justification space, justifying space, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, laggard, langrel shot, layout, lazybones, let have it, lick, lie-abed, line of type, lingerer, loafer, loiterer, loller, lotus-eater, lounger, lubber, manstopping bullet, mope, moper, nip, paste, patent space, pellet, pelt, photocomposition, photosetting, phototypesetter, phototypesetting machine, plodder, plunk, poke, portion, potterer, pound, procrastinator, punch, putterer, quad, quadrat, quoin, rap, rifle ball, round shot, scrip, setting, shell, shot, shrapnel, slacker, slam, sleepyhead, slog, slouch, sloucher, sloven, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slugabed, sluggard, smack, smash, smite, snail, snap, snifter, snort, soak, sock, space, spaceband, split shot, stick-in-the-mud, strike, strike at, stroke, swat, swing, swipe, tag, tattoo, thick space, thin space, thump, thwack, ticket, time killer, time waster, token, tortoise, tot, trifler, typesetting, typesetting machine, waiter on Providence, wallop, whack, wham, whop, yerk

Noun

 * Albanian: ligavec
 * Asturian: llimiagu
 * Bosnian: puž slinar, puž golać
 * Catalan: llimac
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鼻涕蟲, 鼻涕虫
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: slak, wijngaardslak , naaktslak
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, λείμαξ
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: limace


 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 蛞蝓 (なめくじ, namekuji)
 * Lithuanian: šliužas
 * Macedonian:
 * Maori:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: (slizjenj),  (sliznjak)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Sicilian: limaccia, mignatta
 * Slovene: polž slinar
 * Spanish:, limaco
 * Ukrainian: (slymak)


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 * Finnish:


 * Greek: σφηνάκι

Anagrams

 * lugs

Adjective
slug


 * 1) cunning