Slug

Definition: Slug

Slug

Noun

1. A projectile that is fired from a gun.

2. An idle slothful person.

3. Any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell.

Verb

1. Strike heavily, esp. with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out".

2. Be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slug" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Aerospace

Electrical Engineering

Industry

Metallurgy

Meteorology & Standards

Mining

Nuclear Energy & Physics

Public Administration

Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Slug

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Slug

Arms

Missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot, langrage shot, round shot, chain shot; balista, ballista, slung shot, trebucbet, trebucket; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve, congreve rocket; shrapnel, mitraille; levin bolt, levin brand; thunderbolt.

Food

Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut.

Inaction

Lie by, lie on the shelf, lie in ordinary, lie idle, lie to, lie fallow; keep quiet, slug; have nothing to do, whistle for want of thought.

Inactivity

Idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus; do-little faineant, dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant; (runaway) : bummer, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone; lubber, lubbard; slow coach; (slow.); opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag, sluggard, slugabed; slumberer, dormouse, marmot; waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus.

Money

Currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, cold cash; dollar, sterling coin; pounds shillings and pence; Ls.d.; pocket, breeches pocket, purse; money in hand, cash at hand; ready money, ready cash; slug, wad wad of bills, wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough; rhino, blunt, dust, mopus, tin, salt, chink; argent comptant; bottom dollar, buzzard dollar; checks, dibs.

Printing

Boldface, capitals, caps., catchword; composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick; italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype; lower case, upper case; make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, point system: -/, -/,, point, etc.; press room, press work; reglet, roman; running head, running title; scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay.

Slowness

Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late).

Crosswords: Slug

Manx (draught, swallow, swig), Scottish (swallow), Swedish (artful, astute, cagey, canny, clever, crafty, cunning, designing, foxy, knowing, leery, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sly, smart, tricky, wily).

Kathleen, before you start counting the rings around my trunk, I think you should thank your lucky stars that a cheap, parasitic slug, such as yourself, is allowed even to cohabitate under the same roof with a woman of my caliber and credentials. (Filthy Rich; writing credit: Barry E. Blitzer; Linda Bloodworth-Thomason)

I'm going over to slug Eddie! (Leave It to Beaver; writing credit: Katherine Albert; Joe Connelly)

Slug, are you sure no one will come in? (The Toxic Avenger; writing credit: Lloyd Kaufman; Joe Ritter)

The Slug Who Would Be King. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

Why does he bother to dig a slug out of the wall when he knows there's already another one stuck in her head? (Absolute Power; writing credit: William Goldman)

The track hits ya eardrum, like a slug to ya chest (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Slug & Lettuce Group Plc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Defending Yourself Against Criticism: The Slug Manual (reference)

• Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts (reference)

• Quailman Battles the Space Slug (reference)

• Rainy Day Slug (reference)

• Slug (Bang on the Door) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Dragon Ball Z - Lord Slug - Feature (Uncut) (reference)

• Race for the Record/Super Slug (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Metal Slug X (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Hermissenda, Hermissenda crassicornis, also known as the Opalescent Sea Slug, is found in a variety of habitats including mud flats, rocky shores and wharf pilings. Its body is up to 80 mm long. Its dorsal surface has a single orange stripe and bright "electric blue lines, but otherwise is variable in color. Kodiak to Baja California. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

A lettuce sea slug. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Macro shot of a banana slug. Credit: Carol Kauder.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Peru

Best prospects include: angular and frontal crane trucks, drilling and pumping machines, solid carbon steel bars, crowns and trepans, christmas tree valves, drill bits, drilling and extraction ground machinery, large drill and reamers, no repulse drilling machines, stainless steel globe valves, parts for turbines, steam single cylinder engines, integral large drills, carbon stainless steel slug, polyethylene pipe, seamless pipe, accessories for pipes, vessels for compressed gas, burners for gas, reducer pressure valves, gas valves and parts, safety valves, measurement and controllers, gas reducers and regulators and centrifugal pumps. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "slug": burst slug ♦ heat slug ♦ name slug ♦ pear slug ♦ rose slug ♦ sea slug ♦ slug caterpillar ♦ slug it out ♦ slug it out with smb. ♦ slug out ♦ vine slug. Additional references.

Beginning with "slug": slug-a-bed, Slug-horn, slug-like, slug-pellet, slug-pellets, slug-witted.

Ending with "slug": copper-slug, sea-slug, super-slug.

Albanian

qëlloj (batter, clip, clout, conk, discharge, fetch, flap, get, hammer, hit, impinge, knock, lay out, paddle, poke, pop, pot, pound, rifle, shoot, slap, smite, strike, switch), pullë (blotch, check, chip, counter, stamp), plumb (ball, bullet, lead, packet, pellet, plumbum, seal, shot), monedhë false (base coin), lingotë (ingot), ligavec, lëviz ngadalë (creep), kërmill (cochlea, conch, snail), jargës, goditje e fortë (oner, slog, smacker, snifter, staggerer, stinger, swat, swinger, swipe, thump, wallop), gllënjkë e pijes alkoole, fishë (file, index card, plug), copë metali, asgjësoj kërmille. (various references)

Arabic 

‏يرقانة (larva), ‏لكم (box, bust, knock, punch, sock, strike, to you, yours), ‏سبيكة (pig), ‏عيار ناري (cartridge, dumdum, gunshots, shot), ‏ضربة قوية (bounce, chop, crack, knocking, slog, thump), ‏جرعة من مسكر (shot), ‏الكسلان (idle, sluggard), ‏السلج الوحدة الفنية البريطانية للكتلة, ‏البزاقة العريانة, ‏رصاصة (ball, bullet), ‏رخوي (enharmonic), ‏شخص بطىء. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сачма (ball, pellet, shot), слъг, реглета, чашка силно питие, фалшив жетон за монетен автомат, тежък удар (crusher, hammerblow, oner), грубо излят куршум, гол охлюв, мързелан (lazybones, sluggard), заготовка, линотипен ред, бъхтя (punish, ram, slog, wallop), поизпечена руда, плужек (snail). (various references)

Chinese 

�' , 子弹 (Bullet, bullets, Slugs), 小毛蟲 . (various references)

Czech

střela (bullet, kick, missile, projectile, shaft), slimák, silná rána (wallop), praštit (bash, belt, bust, catch, fling, hit, hurl, knock, slosh, strike, swipe), kulka (bullet). (various references)

Danish

smelteperle (shot), smedeemne (blank, stock), satslinje (line of type), udgangsemne (billet, blank), råemne (billet, blank), projektil af bly, brik (biscuit, brick, doily, stand, tetrabrick, tetrapack), brændselspille, blykugle, afskåret råemne (blank, stock). (various references)

Dutch

slak (cinder, snail), naaktslak. (various references)

Esperanto

limako. (various references)

Faeroese

snigil (snail). (various references)

Farsi 

یک جرعه مشروب(امر.), یواش یواش وکرم وارگلوله بی شکل , مثل حلزون حرکت کردن , چارپاره (Buckshot), لول زدن , گردونه کندرو, تکه فلزخام , ضربت مشت (Punch), ضربت سنگین زدن به , جانورکندرو, جانورتنبل , اسب کندرو, بیهوده وقت گذراندن (Dawdle, Moon, Snooze). (various references)

Finnish

etana (snail). (various references)

French

limace. (various references)

German

Schnecke (auger, cochlea, endless screw, escargot, scroll, snail, spiral staircase, volute, worm). (various references)

Greek 

σφαίρα (ball, bowl, bullet, globe, orb, projectile, realm, shot, sphere). (various references)

Hebrew 

שבלול (cochlear, mussel, snail, spiral), חלזון (gastropod, snail, worm), אסימון (token). (various references)

Hungarian

meztelen csiga. (various references)

Indonesian

siput (crustacean, snail), peluru gotri, gondang (snail). (various references)

Irish

seilide (snail), drúchtín. (various references)

Italian

lumaca (slowcoach, snail). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

蛞�" , スラスト軸受 (klap-skate, slack, slacks, slap-skate, slash character, Slav, thrust bearing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なめくじ, スラッグ . (various references)

Korean 

민달팽이 (Slugs). (various references)

Manx

sluggey (absorption, devour, devouring, draw, engulf, gorge, gorging, gulp, gulping, guzzle, guzzling, pulling, suck down; gobbling, sucking, swallow, swallowing, swig), shilleen, shilleeid, muc veay. (various references)

Pig Latin

ugslay

Portuguese

lesma (interline). (various references)

Romanian

stãvili (arrest, bar, barricade, block, dam up, delay, dike, embank, hinder, quench, refrain, restrain, retain, retard, shut, slacken, stem), melc (snail, worm, worm-screw), lenevi (bum, dawdle, idle, lounge, slack, yawn one's life away), fisã telefonicã. (various references)

Russian 

слизняк, слизень, шпон (interline, veneer), кусок металла, нежиться (bask, basking, luxuriate), жетон (jetton, token), лентяй (bummer, do-nothing, faineant, lazybones, lazy-bones, poke, slacker, slob, slug-abed, sluggard, truant, wag, work-shy), личинка (grub, larva, maggot), пуля (ball, bullet, pellet, shot), идти с трудом (trudge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

redak linotipa, puž golać, nepravilan metalni kuršum, metalni grumen, metalna štampa, lenčariti (idle, kick one's heels, loaf, muck about), jedinica mase, jako udariti (smite), žeton (chip, jetton, token). (various references)

Spanish

babosa (tompot blenny). (various references)

Swedish

stor klunk, snigel (snail), metallklump. (various references)

Thai

เหรียญโลหะที่ทำปลอมสำหรับหยอ�"ลงเครื่องจำหน่ายสินค้าแบบหยอ�"เหรียญอย่างผิ�"กฎหมาย (คำไม่เ�, ทากจำพวก Stylommatophora ไม่มีกระ�"องและกินใบไม้, การตี ฟา�"หรือหว�"อย่างแรง, ตีอย่างแรง (shock, sock, swipe, swot), ตัวอ่อนของแมลง (grub). (various references)

Turkish

sert yumruk atmak, sert yumruk (a solid blow, roundhouse, slog), sert vuruş (bash, slog, welt), sert vurmak (slog, smash, wallop, whack), sahte jeton, sümüklüböcek (crawler, helix, snail), tembellik etmek (be lazy, drone, fiddle-faddle, fribble, have a laze, laze, laze around, lounge, lounge about, slack, slack off, slacken), tembel (asleep, bonelazy, do nothing, do-little, drone, gold brick, idle, idle fellow, Idler, inactive, indolent, inert, laggard, languid, languorous, lazy, lazy person, lazybones, loon, lounger, slack, slacker, slothful, slouch, sluggard, sluggish, stagnant, tired, torpid, workshy), mıymıntı (drowsy, slack, sleepy, slowpoke, sluggish, stagnant, stick in the mud), linotip baskı harf dizisi, kesme kurşun, kabuksuz sümüklüböcek, kütle ölçüsü, işlenmemiş metal parçası, bir yudum içki. (various references)

Ukrainian

слимак (snail), рухатися пвільно, кусок металу, куля (ball, bullet, globe, orb, round, sphere, wood), вайло (clodhopper, laggard, lummox, swabber), винищувати слімаків, ніжитися, жетон (counter), лінуватися, личинка (grub, larva, maggot, nymph). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người lười biếng (do-naught, do-nothing, slacker, slug-abed). (various references)

limax. (various references)

jeton. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "slug": slugabed, slugabeds, slugfest, slugfests, sluggard, sluggardly, sluggardness, sluggardnesses, sluggards, slugged, slugger, sluggers, slugging, sluggish, sluggishly, sluggishness, sluggishnesses, slugs. (additional references)

Words ending with "slug": roseslug. (additional references)

Words containing "slug": roseslugs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Slug" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aslaug, glug, lsg, saluge, saug, sclog, Selig, shlub, slagg, sleg, slig, sloag, slogg, slu, sluagh, sluc, slud, sluf, sluge, slugg, slugh, slugy, slui, slurg, spug, stug, sul, sulge, swug, Ulug. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: guls, lugs.

-1 letter: gul, lug.

-2 letters: us.

+1 letter: glues, glugs, gluts, gules, gulfs, gulls, gulps, iglus, luges, lungs, plugs, slugs, slung.

+2 letters: algums, almugs, bugles, bulges, fugles, gallus, gaults, ghouls, glomus, glouts, gluers, glumes, gluons, gruels, guilds, guiles, guilts, gulags, gunsel, kluges, kugels, laughs, loughs, lugers, lunges, lungis, moguls, slough, sludge, sludgy, sluing, smugly, snugly, uglies, valgus, vulgus.

+3 letters: angelus, bagfuls, bagsful, begulfs, belugas, bluings, blunges, buglers, bugloss, bulgers, bulgurs, bungles, burgles, cloughs, colugos, cudgels, deluges, duologs, engluts, engulfs, fungals, gallous, globous, glucans, glucose, gluiest, glutens, gluteus, goulash, guggles, guglets, gulches, guldens, gullets, gulleys, gullies, gulpers, gumless, gunless, gunnels, gunsels, gurgles, gushily, gustily, gutless, gutsily, guttles, guzzles, ingulfs, jugfuls, juggles, jugsful, jungles, kludges, lagunas, lagunes, langues, langurs, lanugos, leagues, legumes, ligulas, ligules, ligures, lounges, lousing, luggers, luggies, lugsail, lungans, lungees, lungers, lungyis, lushing, lusting, lutings, mugfuls, nilgaus, plagues, ploughs, plunges, pulings, pulsing, pungles, putlogs, reglues, regulus, rugolas, rulings, seagull, sloughs, sloughy, sludges, slugged, slugger, slumgum, smuggle, snuggle, songful, splurge, splurgy, subgoal, sulking, sullage, sunglow, tugless, ugliest, ullages, unclogs, unglues, unplugs, unsling, unslung, vulgars.

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