SLUG
\slˈʌɡ], \slˈʌɡ], \s_l_ˈʌ_ɡ]\
Definitions of SLUG
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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an idle slothful person
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strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out"
By Princeton University
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A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
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A hindrance; an obstruction.
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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. They are closely allied to the land snails.
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Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
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A ship that sails slowly.
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An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
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To move slowly; to lie idle.
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To make sluggish.
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To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
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To strike heavily.
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
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A hindrance; an obstruction.
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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. They are closely allied to the land snails.
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Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
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A ship that sails slowly.
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An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
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To move slowly; to lie idle.
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To make sluggish.
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To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
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To strike heavily.
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To strike heavily.
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Any small chunk of metal; especially, one used as a bullet or missile.
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A snail like animal of elongated form, having no visible shell.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A kind of land-snail without a shell; the creeping larva of a moth; a kind of rough, small bullet.
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Slang, to strike hard, especially with the fist or a club.
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Slugged.
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Slugging.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A heavy, lazy fellow: a snail very destructive to vegetation.
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A cylindrical or oval piece of metal for firing from a gun.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Robley Dunglison
