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Slug   /sləg/   Listen
noun
Slug  n.  
1.
A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
2.
A hindrance; an obstruction. (Obs.)
3.
(Zool.) 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.
(Zool.) 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.) "His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover."
6.
An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
7.
(Print.) 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. (Zool.)
(a)
Any nudibranch mollusk.
(b)
A holothurian.
Slug caterpillar. Same as Slugworm.


verb
Slug  v. t.  To make sluggish. (Obs.)


Slug  v. t.  (past & past part. slugged; pres. part. slugging)  
1.
To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
2.
To strike heavily. (Cant or Slang)


Slug  v. i.  To move slowly; to lie idle. (Obs.) "To slug in sloth and sensual delight."


Slug  v. i.  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.





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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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