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slug
1 of 4noun (1)
ˈsləg 
1
: sluggard
2
: a lump, disk, or cylinder of material (such as plastic or metal): such as
a(1)
: a musket ball
(2)
: bullet
b
: a piece of metal roughly shaped for subsequent processing
c
: a $50 gold piece
d
: a disk for insertion in a slot machine
especially : one used illegally instead of a coin
3
: any of numerous chiefly terrestrial pulmonate gastropods (order Stylommatophora) that are found in most parts of the world where there is a reasonable supply of moisture and are closely related to the land snails but are long and wormlike and have only a rudimentary shell often buried in the mantle or entirely absent
4
: a smooth soft larva of a sawfly or moth that creeps like a mollusk
5
a
: a quantity of liquor drunk in one swallow
b
: a detached mass of fluid (such as water vapor or oil) that causes impact (as in a circulating system)
6
a
: a strip of metal thicker than a printer's lead
b
: a line of type cast as one piece
c
: a usually temporary type line serving to instruct or identify
7
: the gravitational unit of mass in the foot-pound-second system to which a pound force can impart an acceleration of one foot per second per second and which is equal to the mass of an object weighing 32 pounds
slug
2 of 4verb (1)
slugged; slugging
transitive verb
1
: to add a printer's slug to
2
: to drink in gulps —often used with down
slug
3 of 4noun (2)
: a heavy blow especially with the fist
slug
4 of 4verb (2)
slugged; slugging
transitive verb
1
: to strike heavily with or as if with the fist or a bat
2
: fight sense 4b —usually used in the phrase slug it out
Synonyms
Noun (1)
- couch potato
- deadbeat
- do-nothing
- drone
- idler
- layabout
- lazybones
- loafer
- lotus-eater
- slouch
- slugabed
- sluggard
Noun (2)
- bang
- bash
- bat
- beat
- belt
- biff
- blow
- bop
- box
- buffet
- bust
- chop
- clap
- clip
- clout
- crack
- cuff
- dab
- douse [British]
- fillip
- hack
- haymaker
- hit
- hook
- knock
- larrup [dialect]
- lash
- lick
- pelt
- pick
- plump
- poke
- pound
- punch
- rap
- slam
- slap
- smack
- smash
- sock
- spank
- stinger
- stripe
- stroke
- swat
- swipe
- switch
- thud
- thump
- thwack
- wallop
- welt
- whack
- wham
- whop
- whap
Verb (2)
- bang
- bash
- bat
- belt
- biff
- bludgeon
- bob
- bonk
- bop
- box
- bust
- clap
- clip
- clobber
- clock
- clout
- crack
- hammer
- hit
- knock
- nail
- paste
- pound
- punch
- rap
- slam
- slap
- slog
- smack
- smite
- sock
- strike
- swat
- swipe
- tag
- thump
- thwack
- wallop
- whack
- whale
- zap
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Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English slugge, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dialect slugga to walk sluggishly
Noun (2)
perhaps from slug to load with slugs
First Known Use
Noun (1)
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb (1)
1912, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Noun (2)
1830, in the meaning defined above
Verb (2)
circa 1861, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Phrases Containing slug
Kids Definition
slug 1 of 4
noun
ˈsləg
: a wormlike animal living mostly on land that is a mollusk related to the snails but that has an undeveloped shell or none at all
slug
2 of 4noun
1
: bullet
2
: a metal disk often used in place of a coin
slug
3 of 4noun
: a hard blow especially with the fist
slug
4 of 4verb
slugged; slugging
: to hit hard with the fist or with a bat
slugged
verb
as in smacked
to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner she got so angry that she slugged the back of the chair and knocked it over Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- smacked
- knocked
- slapped
- punched
- hit
- slammed
- banged
- whacked
- pounded
- struck
- swiped
- clapped
- batted
- bashed
- kicked
- clipped
- cracked
- swatted
- shoved
- thumped
- socked
- clobbered
- hammered
- bopped
- pushed
- tapped
- bludgeoned
- jabbed
- walloped
- poked
- clocked
- rapped
- stabbed
- nailed
- licked
- zapped
- belted
- bobbed
- slogged
- thwacked
- clouted
- flicked
- bumped
- busted
- boxed
- whaled
- chopped
- pasted
- tagged
- smote
- biffed
- bonked
- pummeled
- stroked
- battered
- bust
- mauled
- beat
- lashed
- pelted
- slashed
- roughed
- peppered
- dumped
- buffeted
- bunged
- laced
- mangled
- jostled
- pummelled
- lambasted
- prodded
- clapt
- clubbed
- butted
- whipped
- stamped
- cuffed
- bunted
- decked
- hung one on
- drubbed
- speared
- scuffed
- thrashed
- kneed
- beaned
- sapped
- creamed
- felled
- conked
- flailed
- switched
- floored
- leveled
- flogged
- pommeled
- caned
- pommelled
- knocked down
- sledgehammered
- levelled
- sledged
- skulled
- sucker punched
- brained
- cudgelled
- rabbit-punched
- cudgeled
- bowled (down or over)
- basisternum
- basistyle
- basitarsus
- basitemporal
- bask
- bask in the glory
- bask in the reflected glory
- basked
- Baskerville
- basket
- basket ash
- basket capital
- basket case
- basket cases
- basket catch
- basket chair
- basket clam
- basket cloth
- basket dance
- basket fern
- basket flower
- basket grass
- basket hilt
- Basket Maker
- basket mast