Word Finder - slug

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Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.

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A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.

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A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.

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A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.

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A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.

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A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.

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A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.

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(rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.

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A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.

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A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.

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An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors but lacks a prime mover.

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(television editing) A black screen.

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A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.

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A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.

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(District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.

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The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.

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A hindrance, an obstruction.

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A ship that sails slowly.

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To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.

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To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.

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(of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.

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To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.

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To load with a slug or slugs.

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to slug a gun

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To make sluggish.

I poured a healthy slug and looked at my watch.

How would you like working with a slug who couldn't keep his hands off your boobs every time no one was looking and grabbed your ass whenever he damned well pleased?

It wasn't the war, but it was a battle won, and one more slug was off the street.

The lettuce is eaten by the slug, the slug is eaten by the bird.

Is it purely as a pet, for eggs, as a snail and slug deterrent or for meat?

Check if your neighbors use slug bait especially if they are keen gardeners to be sure.

The Chemicals Slug pellets are probably the most used forms of chemical slug killers.

A slug trap, or slug pub, can be recessed in the soil, filled with either a commercial bait or beer.

I discovered I do n't like sea slug, however beautifully cooked.

You drop the now-empty shell into any glass, grin, and the copper slug is shinning BETWEEN YOUR TEETH !

The trials conducted in 2004 showed that plant stands of sugar beet from untreated seed increased considerably where methiocarb slug baits were used.

Check autumn-sown sweet peas growing in cold frames, and apply mouse and slug controls if necessary.

There are about 40 different kinds of slugs in the United States, but the most common is known as the garden slug.

A good way to practice organic gardening slug control is to put measures in place to keep slugs away from your plants beginning early in the season.

This can help kill off the slug eggs that are hanging out in your soil.

If you already have slugs in your garden, there are many different organic gardening slug control options you can try.

Individual "classic" games from the Virtual Console can cost $10 or more, but this collection contains a half dozen side-scrolling games from the Metal Slug franchise.

If you loved Contra growing up, you will feel right at home with Metal Slug Advance.

Her groggy mind registered the fact that they would no longer leave a trail like a slug.

I saw the bastard try and snatch a kid with his slug of a brother!

A pair of old wooden hulks bear down upon a defenseless slug!

Carrie had looked at him as if he was some particularly loathsome slug.

Many species of sea slug that eat sea anemones or hydroids, do it without activating their prey's stinging cells.

The group are discussing slug control, which could cause some conflict with rougher seedbeds.

The Chemicals slug pellets are probably the most used forms of chemical slug killers.

A slug trap, or slug trap, or slug pub, can be recessed in the soil, filled with either a commercial bait or beer.

I discovered I don't like sea slug, however beautifully cooked.

You drop the now-empty shell into any glass, grin, and the copper slug is shinning BETWEEN YOUR TEETH!

Many species of sea slug that eat sea anemones or hydroids, do it without activating their prey 's stinging cells.

He pushed his hood back to reveal a shaven pate to which clung an augmentation like a huge crystal slug.

Your post was timely, I shall sprinkle some slug pellets around them to keep them safe.

Use slug traps filled with beer or milk instead of pellets.

I have also discovered this sea slug in egg whelk cases.

The great enemy of the plant is the slug, which destroys the young growths.

Where slugs and snails are a problem, put out non-toxic slug bait or traps or use copper strips around the plants.

In organic gardening, slug control is very important.

In Scotland the word "slug" is absent from the vernacular vocabulary, both shell-bearing and shell-less inland molluscs being known as snails.

It seems probable that it is identical with one of the open sacs in which each shell-plate of a Chiton is formed, and the series of plate-like imbrications which are placed behind the single shell-sac on the dorsum of the curious slug, Plectrophorus, suggest the possibility of the formation of a series of shellsacs on the back of that animal similar to those which we find in Chiton.

There are no upper canines; and the cheek-teeth are short-crowned (brachyodont) with a peculiar grained enamel, resembling the skin of a slug in character.