slug

noun slugs

1. Any of many 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. […] all our Ammunition was spent. Those of us who had Money made Slugs of it; their next Shift was to take the middle Screws out of their Guns, and charge their Pieces with them.
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. rare 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. The average slug has a mass of around 0.00002 slugs.

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9. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material. This is perhaps best done by considering a unit cell consisting of one bubble and part of the liquid slugs on each side of it…
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 used to separate broadcast items.
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. regional A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
15. US, slang A hitchhiking commuter.
16. The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename. Slugs are better than just appending the document ID to the URL, as they are readable and understandable by visitors. They are also an important part of a good SEO. So that we can use slugs, every slug has to be unique.
17. obsolete A hindrance, an obstruction. money would be stirring, if it were not for this slug
18. A ship that sails slowly. His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all sluggs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.
19. A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
20. An infertile egg of a reptile.

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verb slugs · slugging · slugged

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. "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 ....
3. 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.
4. intransitive, obsolete To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle. To slug in slouth and sensuall delights.
5. transitive To load with a slug or slugs. to slug a gun
6. To make sluggish. So little do we fear , you slug you

noun slugs

1. A hard blow, usually with the fist.

verb slugs · slugging · slugged

1. transitive To hit very hard, usually with the fist. He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.

noun SLUGs

1. US, informal A special-purpose security of the State and Local Government Series.