slug
1. slug \'sl*g\ n [ME slugge, of Scand origin; akin to Norw dial. slugga to
walk slug]gishly; akin to ME sloor mud - more at SLUR 1: SLUGGARD 2: any
of numerous chiefly terrestrial pulmonate gastropods (family Limacid ae)
found in most parts of the world where there is a reasonable supply of
moisture and closely related to the land snails with a rudimentary shell
often buried in the mantle or entirely absent 3: a smooth soft larva of a
sawfly or moth that creeps like a mollusk
2. slug n [prob. fr. 1slug] 1: a lump, disk, or cylinder of metal : as
1a1: a musket ball 1a2: BULLET 1b: a piece of metal roughly shaped for
subsequent processing 1c: a metal disk for insertion in a slot machine;
esp : one used il legally instead of a coin 2a: a strip of metal thicker
than a printer's lead 2b: a line of type cast as one piece 2c: a usu.
temporary type line serving to instruct or identify 3: a single drink of
liquor : SHOT 4: the gravitational unit of mass in the fps system to which
a pound force can impart an acceleration of one foot per second per second
3. slug vt or slugged; or slug.ging : to add a printer's slug to
4. slug n [perh. fr. slug (to load with slugs)] : a heavy blow esp. with
the fist
5. slug vt or slugged; or slug.ging : to strike heavily with or as if with
the fist or a bat