Dictionary Entry
slug
slug is a 4-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 8 · 22 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
- 2noun
A hindrance; an obstruction.
- 3noun
Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.
- 4noun
Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
- 5noun
A ship that sails slowly.
- 6noun
An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
- 7noun
A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.
- 8intransitive verb
To move slowly; to lie idle.
- 9transitive verb
To make sluggish.
- 10transitive verb
To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
- 11transitive verb
To strike heavily.
- 12intransitive verb
To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; -- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.
- 13noun
(boxing) a blow with the fist
"I gave him a clout on his nose"
- 14noun
any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
- 15noun
a projectile that is fired from a gun
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- 16noun
a strip of type metal used for spacing
- 17noun
an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped
"he took a slug of hard liquor"
- 18noun
an idle slothful person
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- 19noun
a counterfeit coin
- 20noun
a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms
- 21verb
strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
"He slugged me so hard that I passed out"
- 22verb
be idle; exist in a changeless situation
"The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"
"He slugged in bed all morning"
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