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

1. noun. A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
2. noun. A hindrance; an obstruction.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
5. noun. A ship that sails slowly.
6. noun. An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
7. noun. 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.
8. intransitive verb. To move slowly; to lie idle.
9. transitive verb. To make sluggish.
10. transitive verb. To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
11. transitive verb. To strike heavily.
12. intransitive 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.
13. noun. (boxing) a blow with the fist

    "I gave him a clout on his nose"

    Synonyms: biff, clout, lick, poke, punch

14. noun. any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
15. noun. a projectile that is fired from a gun

    Synonyms: bullet

16. noun. a strip of type metal used for spacing
17. noun. an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped

    "he took a slug of hard liquor"

18. noun. an idle slothful person

    Synonyms: sluggard

19. noun. a counterfeit coin
20. noun. 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
21. verb. strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat

    "He slugged me so hard that I passed out"

    Synonyms: slog, swig

22. verb. be idle; exist in a changeless situation

    "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"

    "He slugged in bed all morning"

    Synonyms: idle, laze, stagnate

Synonyms

biff, clout, lick, poke, punch, bullet, sluggard, slog, swig, idle, laze, stagnate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in slug:

guls, lugs

Common word forms

slugs, slugged, slugger, slugging

Words from these letters

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