Main Entry:

¹slug

Pronunciation:

\ˈsləg\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

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

Date:

15th century

1: sluggard2: 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 absent4: a smooth soft larva of a sawfly or moth that creeps like a mollusk5 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 identify7: 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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