slug

Senso (English)

Noun

1. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
2. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
3. A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
4. A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
5. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
6. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
10. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
11. 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, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
12. A black screen.
13. 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.
14. A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
15. (slang) A hitchhiking commuter.
16. The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
17. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
18. A ship that sails slowly.
19. A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.

Verb

1. To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
2. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
3. To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
4. (obsolete) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
5. To load with a slug or slugs.
6. To make sluggish.

Verb

To hit very hard, usually with the fist.

Synonyms

snail

🐌

bullet

punch

👊

shot

sluggard

type slug

clout

slog

biff

wallop

swig

droop

smack

hit

idle

stagnate

knock down

poke

thwack

beat

blank

whack

whip

laze

beat up

ammunition

lick

ball

fuel slug

sock

spank

interline

laggard

lash

lead

leading

leech

mole cricket

mollusc

mollusk

nugget

orb

pellet

pole

preform

projectile

quaff

rod

rule

semi-finished product

slam

slowcoach

slowness

slowpoke

sphere

spring

tan

thrash

thump

torture

vanquish

whomp

be lazy

lazy person

sea slug

geepound

workblank

sleep

😴

sea-slug

field slug

be inert

naked snail

dilly-dallier

dillydallier

nudibranch

poker chip

slug-worm

semi-finished metal

cross lock

fuel brick

fuel clump

mollusk

adobe

mollusc

assault

attack

👊

bang

bar

base

bash

bat

🦇

bean

belt

be slow

billet

blow

blurt

bowl

cane

cannon ball

cartridge

chip

clobber

club

cuff

draught

escargot

fatty

globe

gulp

have intercourse

helix

hinder

ingot

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/slʌɡ/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglese medio: slugge

Inherited from inglese antico: -

Cognate with Norn: slug

Cognate with norvegese: slugg

Cognate with danese: slog

Cognate with norse antico: slókr

Cognate with islandese: slókur

Cognate with olandese: slak

Cognate with tedesco: Schlag

Cognate with olandese: slag

In summary

Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "slowth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”); perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch.