slug

Meaning

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.

Concepts

slug

snail

bullet

punch

shot

clout

wallop

smack

hit

slog

biff

swig

type slug

sluggard

droop

thwack

whack

beat

spank

whip

ammunition

fuel slug

lick

poke

idle

laze

stagnate

ball

blank

beat up

knock down

sock

mollusc

mollusk

field slug

attack

assault

bash

belt

clobber

tan

whomp

cane

club

cuff

lash

thrash

thump

leech

cartridge

bat

slam

bang

naked snail

sea-slug

slug-worm

be lazy

be slow

be inert

hinder

blow

bowl

globe

orb

projectile

sphere

adobe

base

billet

ingot

semi-finished metal

preform

geepound

cross lock

bar

pole

rod

semi-finished product

workblank

fuel brick

fuel clump

have intercourse

torture

vanquish

escargot

nudibranch

sea slug

draught

gulp

dilly-dallier

dillydallier

laggard

slowcoach

slowpoke

bean

cannon ball

pellet

chip

poker chip

quaff

blurt

spring

lead

leading

fatty

slowness

lazy person

nugget

helix

interline

rule

mole cricket

sleep

Pronounced as (IPA)

/slʌɡ/

Etymology

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.