: 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 (such 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
Noun (1)
he's always a slug in the morning, which is why he prefers to sleep late
knocked back another slug of whiskey Noun (2)
one well aimed slug on the head knocked him out Verb (2)
she got so angry that she slugged the back of the chair and knocked it over
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Noun
Lack of slug may end up haunting them in the postseason.—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025 Place a piece of 6 x 6-inch piece of cardboard or thin plywood on the garden surface to attract slugs, then check under it every morning.—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
After Otto Lopez grounded out to third, slugging catcher Agustin Ramirez represented the tying run with one out.—Alex Krutchik, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025 That finally changed Tuesday against the Atlanta Braves when Tucker slugged a go-ahead three-run homer off left-hander Joey Wentz in the third inning.—Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for slug
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English slugge, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dialect slugga to walk sluggishly
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