Word Finder - slugs

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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.

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A hard blow, usually with the fist.

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To hit very hard, usually with the fist.

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He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.

A couple more slugs of this stuff and I'll be fine.

She reached down behind the desk and brought out a bottle of gin and poured two healthy slugs into water glasses.

Three slugs of gin later he managed to get away, just as the desk was beginning to look appealing.

Slugs and woodlice are the worst enemies of mushroom crops.

Various species among those that are predaceous attack smaller insects, hunt in packs crustaceans larger than themselves, insert their narrow heads into snail-shells to pick out and devour the occupants, or pursue slugs and earthworms underground.

In other slugs, namely, Limax and Anion, the shell-sac remains permanently closed over the shell-plate, which in the latter genus consists of a granular mass of carbonate of lime.

The permanence of the primitive shell-sac in these slugs is a point of considerable interest.

Whether the closed primitive shell-sac of the slugs (and with it the transient embryonic shell-gland of all other Mollusca) is precisely the same thing as the closed sac in which the calcareous pen or shell of the Cephalopod Sepia and its allies is formed, is a further question which we shall consider when dealing with the Cephalopoda.

The commoner European slugs of small size all belong to the genus Limax, in which the opening of the mantle-chamber is posterior.

In small flowers which are crowded at the same level or in flat flowers in which the stigmas and anthers project but little, slugs or snails creeping over their surface may transfer to the stigma the pollen which clings to the slimy foot.

Slugs are often destructive to the young shoots, but may be checked by a few sprinklings of soot or lime.

One advantage of using edgings of this kind, especially in kitchen gardens, is that they do not harbour slugs and similar vermin, which all live edgings do, and often to a serious extent, if they are left to grow large.

Pallas in 1778, who took them to be slugs and described them under the name Limax lanceolatus.

Aldrovandi in De animalibus insectis (1602) almost contemporaneously distinguished between "terrestrial insects," including woodlice, earthworms and slugs, and "aquatic insects," comprising annelids and starfishes.

In some Pulmonata (snails) the foot is extended at right angles to the visceral hump, which rises from it in the form of a coil as in Streptoneura; in others the visceral hump is not elevated, but is extended with the foot, and the shell is small or absent (slugs).

In England the word "snail" in popular language is associated with Gasteropods which inhabit land or fresh water, and which possess large conspicuous spiral shells; terrestrial Gasteropods, in which the shell is rudimentary and concealed, are distinguished as "slugs."

The families Limacidae, Arionidae and Oncidiidae of the same sub-order, include nearly all the slugs.

Thus the whole of the Pulmonata (which breathe air, are destitute of gill-plumes and operculum and have a complicated hermaphrodite reproductive system) are either snails or slugs.

They are mostly carnivorous, and eat other pests such as slugs, so they are generally beneficial in the garden.

Fresh soot is rather caustic and may be used as a soil fumigant to destroy insects and slugs.

I have a dill seedling, safely tucked away under a plastic bottle cloche away from the mean old slugs.

I'm planning the opposite way up for my bottle tops - mini cloches to hopefully defend against the evil slugs!

May be attacked by aphids, vine weevil, slugs, leaf and bud eelworms and greenhouse red spider mite.

How to deter slugs, snails, mollusks around hosta plants slugs and snails enjoy hosta plants slugs and snails enjoy hosta environments.

These fertilizers make lush, rapid growth which only encourages slugs!

Slugs and snails don't have jaws, instead they have a radula, they are the only animals to have a radula.

A couple had started to go rotten - thanks slugs.

The problem is that it could be confused with other sea slugs of the same genus, especially the common species Doto coronata.

Therefore the only effectual way to destroy slugs is to sow lime, in dust, and not slaked.

Did you know coffee grinds are great for deterring slugs?

No worse than them eating too many slugs I suppose.

Well, have to have something nice to think about whilst picking the horrible slugs off your brassicas!

These traps will only attract slugs from a nearby area.

Still the dry worked wonders keeping the slugs down.

You can always see the lazy common seals lying about sunbathing like large gray slugs.

There will be no big black slugs shot at, only the ones you shoot through your gun.

I think I can answer some of these questions by considering the behavior of garden slugs living on a hard ceramic floor.

Dried couch grass - lightly sprinkled - toxic to slugs.

If you don't like the feel of slugs use a hand trowel to pick them up.

The Romans are credited with having purposely introduced the edible snail (Helix pomatia) into England, and the common garden snail and slugs (Helix aspersa, Limax agrestis and Anion hortensis) have been unwittingly established in New Zealand.

Secondly, the group uses DNA sequences to estimate the topology and timing of deep evolutionary relationships among the pulmonate land snails and slugs.

Slugs and snails do n't have jaws, instead they have a radula, they are the only animals to have a radula.

When they 're young and tender they 're vulnerable to slugs and snails which rasp away at the stem until the whole plant shrivels.

Slugs are masters in secreting such slimy substances all over their body, especially on the ventral side.

Each night, the slugs crawled out of the moons and stars and slithered off on their fungal foray.

Kill the slugs = no eggs or destroy the eggs = no slugs.

Well, have to have something nice to think about whilst picking the horrible slugs off your brassicas !

Dead slugs & snails left for a few days in water to ferment.

If you do n't like the feel of slugs use a hand trowel to pick them up.

The feline worms use snails and slugs as hosts.