ALL meanings of slug
slug
S s - noun slug animal 1
- noun slug bullet 1
- noun slug person: slow 1
- noun slug mouthful of drink 1
- transitive verb slug hit with fist 1
- noun slug a hard blow or hit, especially with a fist or baseball bat. 1
- verb with object slug to strike heavily; hit hard, especially with the fist. 1
- verb with object slug to hit or drive (a baseball) very hard or a great distance. 1
- verb without object slug to hit or be capable of hitting hard. 1
- verb without object slug to trudge, fight, or push onward, as against obstacles or through mud or snow: The infantry slugged up the hill and dug in. 1
- idioms slug slug it out, to fight, especially with fists, until a decisive victory has been achieved. to succeed or survive by constant and intense struggle. 1
- countable noun slug A slug is a small slow-moving creature with a long soft body and no legs, like a snail without a shell. 0
- countable noun slug If you take a slug of an alcoholic drink, you take a large mouthful of it. 0
- verb slug If you slug someone, you hit them hard. 0
- countable noun slug A slug is a bullet. 0
- noun slug any of various terrestrial gastropod molluscs of the genera Limax, Arion, etc, in which the body is elongated and the shell is absent or very much reduced 0
- noun slug any of various other invertebrates having a soft slimy body, esp the larvae of certain sawflies 0
- noun slug a slow-moving or lazy person or animal 0
- noun slug an fps unit of mass; the mass that will acquire an acceleration of 1 foot per second per second when acted upon by a force of 1 pound. 1 slug is approximately equal to 32.17 pounds 0
- noun slug a metal blank from which small forgings are worked 0
- noun slug a bullet or pellet larger than a pellet of buckshot 0
- noun slug a metal token for use in slot machines, etc 0
- noun slug a thick strip of type metal that is less than type-high and is used for spacing 0
- noun slug a similar strip carrying a type-high letter, used as a temporary mark by compositors 0
- noun slug a metal strip containing a line of characters as produced by a linecaster 0
- noun slug a draught of a drink, esp an alcoholic one 0
- noun slug a magnetic core that is screwed into or out of an inductance coil to adjust the tuning of a radio frequency amplifier 0
- verb slug to hit very hard and solidly, as in boxing 0
- verb slug to plod as if through snow 0
- verb slug to charge (someone) an exorbitant price 0
- noun slug an act of slugging; heavy blow 0
- noun slug an exorbitant charge or price 0
- noun slug any of a large number of small, gastropod mollusks, esp. the ones resembling a land snail, but having only a rudimentary internal shell buried in the mantle 0
- noun slug a smooth, soft moth (family Eucleidae) or sawfly larva, resembling a slug 0
- noun slug a person, vehicle, etc. that moves sluggishly 0
- noun slug a small piece or lump of metal; specif., a bullet 0
- noun slug a piece of metal shaped like and used in place of a coin in automatic coin machines; esp., such a substitute coin when used illegally 0
- noun slug a strip of metal used to add space between lines of type 0
- noun slug a line of type made in one piece or strip, as by a linotype machine 0
- noun slug a short heading, often a single word, indicating the subject of copy 0
- noun slug a unit of mass, equal to c. 14.6 kg (c. 32.2 lb), to which a force of one pound imparts an acceleration of one foot per second per second 0
- verb transitive slug to insert (a slug) between lines 0
- noun slug a single drink, esp. of straight alcoholic liquor 0
- verb transitive slug to hit hard, esp. with the fist or a bat 0
- noun slug a hard blow or hit 0