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Slug   /sləg/   Listen
Slug

noun
1.
A projectile that is fired from a gun.  Synonym: bullet.
2.
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.
3.
A counterfeit coin.
4.
An idle slothful person.  Synonym: sluggard.
5.
An amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped.
6.
A strip of type metal used for spacing.  Synonym: type slug.
7.
Any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell.
8.
(boxing) a blow with the fist.  Synonyms: biff, clout, lick, poke, punch.
verb
(past & past part. slugged; pres. part. slugging)
1.
Strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat.  Synonyms: slog, swig.
2.
Be idle; exist in a changeless situation.  Synonyms: idle, laze, stagnate.  "He slugged in bed all morning"



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"Slug" Quotes from Famous Books



... Apple; Wine of New England; the Chickaree Apple; the Green Apple (Malus viridis);—this has many synonymes; in an imperfect state, it is the Cholera morbifera aut dysenterifera, puerulis dilectissima;—the Apple which Atalanta stopped to pick up; the Hedge-Apple (Malus Sepium); the Slug-Apple (limacea); the Railroad-Apple, which perhaps came from a core thrown out of the cars; the Apple whose Fruit we tasted in our Youth; our Particular Apple, not to be found in any catalogue,—Pedestrium Solatium; also the Apple where ...
— Excursions • Henry D. Thoreau
... right, old slug-abed! You tucked me in last night with the warning that we pick up the early ...
— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts
... is ugly,' The three-dimensioned preacher saith, So we must not look where the snail and the slug lie For Psyche's birth.... And ...
— Songs from Books • Rudyard Kipling
... physical unrest and confused cross-currents of desire. A mist seemed to blurr all life. The hemlocks no longer chanted riotous gladness. There was a dirge to-night of futility, monotonous age-old eons of useless effort, the useless fall of the forest giant to the dry rot of slug and insect. It was as if Wayland's spirit stood back and listened to the conflicting contentions of two other men, the one who wanted to breast the stream and the one who wanted to go with the current; one full of blind, red-blood courage, ...
— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut
... said the Psammead, as a great beast like an enormous slaty-blue slug showed itself against the black bank on the far side ...
— The Story of the Amulet • E. Nesbit


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