| slug | An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun | en |
| slug | a projectile that is fired from a gun | en |
| slug | A graphical symbol (usually a WingDing) placed at the end of an article Slugs not only indicate the end of an article, they give the document a professional look | en |
| slug | an idle slothful person | en |
| slug | any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell | en |
| slug | be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" | en |
| slug | strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out" | en |
| slug | Is the metal piece separated from the stock sheet when piercing a hole | en |
| slug | Character designed to show paragraph breaks | en |
| slug | In composition, a one-piece line of type Also, a strip of metal, usually 6 points, used for spacing between lines | en |
| slug | To strike heavily | en |
| slug | A unit of mass in the "British" system One slug equals 14 59 59 kilograms or 32 174 pounds | en |
| slug | A complete line of type cast in one piece | en |
| slug | A bullet | en |
| slug | A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines | en |
| slug | A piece of typemetal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error | en |
| slug | A black screen | en |
| slug | To down a shot | en |
| slug | To drink quickly; to gulp | en |
| slug | To hit very hard | en |
| slug | A lazy person, a sluggard | en |
| slug | 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 | en |
| slug | A discrete quantity of one fluid that flows though the line surrounded by another | en |
| slug | Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell | en |
| slug | A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic | en |
| slug | A title, name or header | en |
| slug | The unused interior piece of material cut out by wire EDM or a trepanning electrode | en |
| slug | Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration or flows during normal operation | en |
| slug | Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug | en |
| slug | A ship that sails slowly | en |
| slug | A board that does not get up and go | en |
| slug | Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting | en |
| slug | A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard | en |
| slug | A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc | en |
| slug | To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun | en |
| slug | To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm | en |
| slug | any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out | en |
| slug | To move slowly; to lie idle | en |
| slug | To make sluggish | en |
| slug | A hindrance; an obstruction | en |
| slug | They are closely allied to the land snails | en |
| slug | A "fuel element" for a nuclear reactor, a piece of fissionable material The slugs in large reactors consist of uranium metal coated with aluminum to prevent corrosion | en |
| slug | a pulmonate or opisthobranch gastropod in which the shell is absent, or reduced and buried within the mantle | en |
| slug | worm-like gastropod that is related to the snail but has no shell; insect larvae; round bullet; lazy person (Slang); shot of liquor (Informal); strip of metal used for spacing (Printing); heavy blow isim | en |
| slug | Scrap from a piercing operation | en |
| slug | formerly a term for a blank line, now used mainly to describe a line that will not print but that identifies matter to be inserted | en |
| slug | An internal name for a story, usually just one word Elex might be the slug for a story on school elections | en |
| slug | The unit of mass in the English Gravitational System, approximately 32 2 pounds-mass Because "pound" is ambiguous and can refer either to mass or force, the slug is used exclusively as a unit of mass Earth's gravity exerts a force of 32 2 pounds-force on a mass of 1 slug | en |
| slug | A slug is a bullet. Any species of gastropod that glides along on a broad tapered foot and has no shell or one that is merely an internal plate or a series of granules. Most slugs use the mantle cavity (see mollusk) as a lung. Slugs have a soft, slimy body and live in moist habitats on land (except for one freshwater species). All are hermaphroditic. In temperate regions, the common slugs eat fungi and decaying leaves. Some tropical species eat plants, and some European species eat other snails and earthworms. See also nudibranch | en |
| slug | hit hard with the fist or with a bat (Slang); move slowly; be idle or lazy fiil | en |
| slug | A slug is a small slow-moving creature with a long soft body and no legs, like a snail without a shell | en |
| slug | If you slug someone, you hit them hard. She slugged her right in the face = sock | en |
| slug | If you take a slug of an alcoholic drink, you take a large mouthful of it. Edgar took a slug of his drink. = shot | en |
| slugging | The process of sawing blanks, or slugs, from bar stock or billets for subsequent machining operations | en |
| slugging | hitting a ball hard; slogging | en |
| slugging | A term used to describe the condition when large amounts of liquid enter a pumping compressor cylinder | en |
| slugging | A term used to describe the condition when large amount of liquid enter a pumping compressor cylinder | en |
| slugs | limacidae | en |
| slugs | third-person singular of slug | en |
| slugs | plural of slug | en |
| slugs | Half-roasted ore | en |