Slug
Pronunciation
- enPR: slÅg, IPA: /slʌɡ/
- Rhymes: -ʌɡ
Origin
Originally referred to a lazy person, from Middle English slugge, probably of Scandinavian/Old Norse origin; compare dialectal Norwegian sluggje ("heavy, slow person").
Full definition of slug
Noun
slug
(plural slugs)- Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell
- (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
- A bullet (projectile).
- A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
- A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
- (journalism) 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.
- (physics, rarely used) 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.
- A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
- 1973, When these layers are recovered they inevitably result in a slug of sawdust which goes into the digester and tends to plug the screens in a Kamyr digester.
- 1987, United States. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, United States. Board of Mine Operations Appeals, Occupational safety and health decisions, Then, just a few nights before August 6, Gilbert testified that a "slug of sand-rock" weighing an estimate of one to two tons fell on his continuous miner as he was taking a cut, approximately fifteen feet from where he was standing.
- 1998, Orrin H. Pilkey, The Corps and the Shore, Tvpically, enough sand is emplaced to create a slug of sand that moves along the shore causing noticeable and somewhat dramatic local changes.
- 1998, N. A. Krylov, The oil industry of the former Soviet Union
- 2005, Sam Mannan, Lee's loss prevention in the process industries, Another phenomenon investigated was a slug of water falling through the cloud.
- 2007, William Lauer, Disinfection of pipelines and storage facilities field guide, This method uses a slug of 100 mg/L chlorinated water as a slug that moves along the length of the pipeline. The slug is a percentage of the total length of the pipeline.
- 2010, Nancy E. McTigue, The water dictionary: a comprehensive reference of water terminology, For example, a slug of iron rust might appear because of the shearing action of a high-demand flow that loosens a previously deposited iron precipitate.
- 2010, Robert A. Meyers, Extreme Environmental Events, These experiments investigate the ascent of a slug of gas in a vertical liquid-filed tube featuring a flare that abruptly doubles the cross sectional area.
- 2011, Bill Calfee, The Art of Rimfire Accuracy, You had to learn to grab the teat up next to the udder with your thumb and side of your first finger, grab a slug of milk and progressively squeeze it down the teat past your middle finger, ring finger and little finger
- A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
- (television editing) A black screen.
- (metal typesetting) A piece of type metal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.
- (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
- (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
- (obsolete) A hindrance; an obstruction.
- A ship that sails slowly.
- Samuel PepysHis rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.
Synonyms
- (a quantity of a drink) See also
Derived terms
Verb
- To drink quickly; to gulp.
- To down a shot.
- (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.
- To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
- 1998, July 23, Ramsey Vows to Find New Sites for Commuter `Slug Lines', "We believe in car-pooling, but let's do it without restricting traffic. ..." Sam Snyder, 51, of Burke, who has been slugging to his job at the US Customs ....
- 2002, December 13, Joshua E. Rodd, no sane person would attempt to commute that far every day. Sure they do. I've often slugged to Fredericksburg and back. The VRE carries hundreds of people per day, and the I-95 HOV lanes carry tens of thousands of people each day.
- (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
- SpenserTo slug in sloth and sensual delight.
- (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.to slug a gun
- To make sluggish.