slug

¹slug

noun \ˈsləg\

Definition of SLUG

1

: sluggard

2

: a lump, disk, or cylinder of material (as plastic or metal): as a (1) : a musket ball (2) : bullet b : a piece of metal roughly shaped for subsequent processing c : a $50 gold piece d : a disk for insertion in a slot machine; especially : one used illegally instead of a coin

3

: any of numerous chiefly terrestrial pulmonate gastropods (order Stylommatophora) that are found in most parts of the world where there is a reasonable supply of moisture and are closely related to the land snails but are long and wormlike and have only a rudimentary shell often buried in the mantle or entirely absent

4

: a smooth soft larva of a sawfly or moth that creeps like a mollusk

5

a : a quantity of liquor drunk in one swallow b : a detached mass of fluid (as water vapor or oil) that causes impact (as in a circulating system)

6

a : a strip of metal thicker than a printer's lead b : a line of type cast as one piece c : a usually temporary type line serving to instruct or identify

7

: the gravitational unit of mass in the foot-pound-second system to which a pound force can impart an acceleration of one foot per second per second and which is equal to the mass of an object weighing 32 pounds

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Origin of SLUG

Middle English slugge, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dialect slugga to walk sluggishly

First Known Use: 15th century

Rhymes with SLUG

bug, chug, drug, dug, fug, hug, jug, lug, mug, plug, pug, rug, shrug, smug, snug, thug, trug, tug, vug