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Slug   /sləg/   Listen
noun
Slug  n.  
1.
A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
2.
A hindrance; an obstruction. (Obs.)
3.
(Zool.) 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.
4.
(Zool.) Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
5.
A ship that sails slowly. (Obs.) "His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover."
6.
An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
7.
(Print.) 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.
Sea slug. (Zool.)
(a)
Any nudibranch mollusk.
(b)
A holothurian.
Slug caterpillar. Same as Slugworm.


verb
Slug  v. t.  To make sluggish. (Obs.)


Slug  v. t.  (past & past part. slugged; pres. part. slugging)  
1.
To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
2.
To strike heavily. (Cant or Slang)


Slug  v. i.  To move slowly; to lie idle. (Obs.) "To slug in sloth and sensual delight."


Slug  v. i.  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.





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"Slug" Quotes from Famous Books



... no better, sir; for if you stand here five minutes longer, you will either be taken, or you will lose the number of your mess, by a carbine slug, or the slash of a sabre; while, if you turn back, you will have ten times the chance of escape along ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various
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... a sand-bag to slug her would be more like it, if I expected to get anywhere with her. No, you've hit it, Betty, and I'm going on down the street and see just where that Morris line goes into the trunk. Hope Judson won't have to run more than a mile of wire to make that connection." And with no more gratitude ...
— Over Paradise Ridge - A Romance • Maria Thompson Daviess
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... up for shame, the blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn. See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh-quilted colours through the air: Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree. Each flower has wept and bow'd toward the east Above an hour since: yet you not dress'd; Nay! not so much as out of bed? When all the birds have matins said And sung their thankful hymns, 'tis sin, Nay, profanation ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick
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... his wrists on a nail or a splinter or with the cords, and cheat them, if there were any blood in him now. He would try. Yes, an unpleasant death. No one, no true Somali, that is, objected to a prod in the heart with a shovel-headed spear, a thwack in the head with a hammered slug, a sweep at the neck with a big sword—but to have a person sawing at your throat with weak and shaking ...
— Driftwood Spars - The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who - Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life • Percival Christopher Wren
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... the Cephalopods, to which belong the cuttle-fish and the octopus (sacred to Victor Hugo), may be, for all we can say to the contrary, an order with a future. Their kindred, the Gastropods, have, in the case of the snail and slug, learnt the trick of air-breathing. And not improbably there are even now genera of this order that have escaped the naturalist, or even well-known genera whose possibilities in growth and dietary ...
— Certain Personal Matters • H. G. Wells
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