slug en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /slɐɡ/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- slŭg
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- /slʌɡ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Southern-England)
- /slʊɡ/ (Northern-England)
Etymology
Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”). Compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch. The sense of a hitchhiking commuter is from the sense of a counterfeit bus token. Bus operators considered sluggers to be cheating as if they were using counterfeit tokens.
Meanings
- Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
- (obsolete) 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.
A mass accelerator propels a solid metal slug using precisely-controlled electromagnetic attraction and repulsion. The slug is designed to squash or shatter on impact, increasing the energy it transfers to the target. If this were not the case, it would simply punch a hole right through, doing minimal damage.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Mass Accelerators Codex entry:[…] all our Ammunition was spent. Those of us who had Money made Slugs of it; their next Shift was to take the middle Screws out of their Guns, and charge their Pieces with them.
1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 55:
- A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
- A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
- A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
- 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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(rare) 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.
The average slug has a mass of around 0.00002 slugs.
The slug is defined as the mass which would accelerate at a rate of 1 ft/s² under a force of one pound-force (lbf). Since 1 lbf is the force exerted on a mass of one pound by a standard gravitational field (of exactly 9.80665 meters per square second), a slug is thus exactly equal to 196133/6096 pounds (about 32.1740485564 lb or 14.593902937206 kg).
2000 October 9, Gérard P. Michon, “What is a slug, in the [engineering] weight measurement system?”, in Numericana.com:
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A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
For example, a slug of iron rust might appear because of the shearing action of a high-demand flow that loosens a previously deposited iron precipitate.
2010, Nancy E. McTigue, James M. Symons, editors, The water dictionary: a comprehensive reference of water terminology, 2nd edition, American Water Works Association, page 556:You had to learn to grab the teat up next to the udder with your thumb and side of your first finger, grab a slug of milk and progressively squeeze it down the teat past your middle finger, ring finger and little finger
2011, Bill Calfee, The Art of Rimfire Accuracy, page 125:This is also furthered by the creation of a slug of light hydrocarbons near the oil displacement front, extracted by the carbon dioxide from the oil
1998, N. A. Krylov with A. A. Bokserman and Evgeniĭ Romanovich Stavrovskiĭ, The oil industry of the former Soviet Union, page 112:Then, just a few nights before August 6, Gilbert testified that a "slug of sand-rock" weighing an estimate of one to two tons fell on his continuous miner as he was taking a cut, approximately fifteen feet from where he was standing.
1987, United States. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, United States. Board of Mine Operations Appeals, Occupational safety and health decisions:When these layers are recovered they inevitably result in a slug of sawdust which goes into the digester and tends to plug the screens in a Kamyr digester.
1973, Pulp & Paper International, volume 15:These experiments investigate the ascent of a slug of gas in a vertical liquid-filed tube featuring a flare that abruptly doubles the cross sectional area.
2010, Robert A. Meyers, Extreme Environmental Events, page 1198:Tvpically, enough sand is emplaced to create a slug of sand that moves along the shore causing noticeable and somewhat dramatic local changes.
1998, Orrin H. Pilkey with Katharine L. Dixon, The Corps and the Shore, page 159:This is perhaps best done by considering a unit cell consisting of one bubble and part of the liquid slugs on each side of it…
1969, Graham B. Wallis, One-Dimensional Two-Phase Flow, McGraw-Hill, section 10.2, pages 282–283:Another phenomenon investigated was a slug of water falling through the cloud.
2005, Sam Mannan with Frank P. Lees, Lee's loss prevention in the process industries, page 16-115:This method uses a slug of 100 mg/L chlorinated water as a slug that moves along the length of the pipeline. The slug is a percentage of the total length of the pipeline.
2007, William Lauer with Fred Sanchez, Disinfection of pipelines and storage facilities field guide, page 54:
- A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
- 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, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
- A black screen used to separate broadcast items.
- 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.
- (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
- (US, qualifier:District of Columbia, slang) A hitchhiking commuter.
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(qualifier:web development) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
Slugs are better than just appending the document ID to the URL, as they are readable and understandable by visitors. They are also an important part of a good SEO. So that we can use slugs, every slug has to be unique.
2016, Fabian Vogelsteller, Isaac Strack, Marcelo Reyna, Meteor: Full-Stack Web Application Development, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 71:
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(obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
money would be stirring, if it were not for this slug
1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usury”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
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A ship that sails slowly.
His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all sluggs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.
1666, Samuel Pepys, Diary entry 17 October 1666:
- A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
- An infertile egg of a reptile.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| slugs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
black slug · slugless · solid slug · yellow slug · slug snail · slugburger · sluggy · yard slug · land slug · sand slug · slughorn · slugworm · sell salt to a slug · hump slug · slug bug · monkey slug · leatherleaf slug · slinch · slugthrower · cherry slug · rainbow slug · red triangle slug · rifled slug · slug slime · rose slug · sluggos · sluglike · leopard slug · banana slug · slug moth · pear slug · slug line · greenhouse slug · Santa Barbara shelled slug · mantleslug · slugicide · sluggish · pancake slug · variable neon slug · sea slug · slugify · slug caterpillar · ghost slug · semislug · road slug
Relateds
sluggard · lug · snail (gastropod, locomotive)
Synonyms
geepound · nip & Thesaurus:drink (small amount of liquor)
Translations (150)
it chiocciola (gastropod) · ms lintah bulan (gastropod) · pt chumbinho (bullet) · pl ślimak bezmuszlowy (gastropod) · pt lesma (gastropod) · ain シマイマ (gastropod) · orv смолжь (gastropod) · ka ლოქორა (gastropod) · ro limax (gastropod) · es babosa (gastropod) · fi etana (gastropod) · uz shilliqqurt (gastropod) · mt bugħarwien (gastropod) · id siput (gastropod) · hy խլեզ (gastropod) · bg гол о́хлюв (gastropod) · nl slak (gastropod) · vec liméga (gastropod) · nl naaktslak (gastropod) · ga seilide (gastropod) · sh пуж голаћ (gastropod) · yue 鼻涕蟲 /鼻涕虫 (gastropod) · scn mignatta (gastropod) · mi putoko (gastropod) · ru масли́на (bullet) · gl limaco (gastropod) · ru слизня́к (gastropod) · pl ślinik (gastropod) · mk го́лтка (shot of drink) · zza lolıko çılmın (gastropod) · bg глътка (shot of drink) · fa راب (gastropod) · gl limacha (gastropod) · it limaccia (gastropod) · mk са́чма (bullet) · pt trago (shot of drink) · bg жетон (counterfeit coin) · gl aligacha (gastropod) · fr pruneau (bullet) · lt šliužas (gastropod) · ru пу́ля (bullet) · fr dragée (bullet) · sq ligavec (gastropod) · gun evo'i pe (gastropod) · cmn 蜒蚰 (gastropod) · sq jargavec (gastropod) · el λείμαξ (gastropod) · sh пуж слинар (gastropod) · sl polž slinar (gastropod) · pdt Mestworm (gastropod) · nrf lînmache (gastropod) · ang sneġel (gastropod) · da skovsnegl (gastropod) · bg куршум (bullet) · ga drúchtín (gastropod) · zza next (shot of drink) · is (kuðungslaus) snígill (gastropod) · es babaza (gastropod) · vi sên (gastropod) · ast llimaz (gastropod) · ja ナメクジ (gastropod) · ro melc (gastropod) · ast llimiagu (gastropod) · th ทาก (gastropod) · el γυμνοσάλιαγκας (gastropod) · ko 활유 (gastropod) · cmn 水蜒蚰 (gastropod) · bg фалшива монета (counterfeit coin) · gl limáchega (gastropod) · es limaza (gastropod) · ceb hilâhilâ (gastropod) · rif buššer (gastropod) · fr bastos (bullet) · da dræbersnegl (gastropod) · et nälkjas (gastropod) · be сліма́к (gastropod) · my ပက်ကျိ (gastropod) · mk шот (shot of drink) · uk слизня́к (gastropod) · sh puž slinar (gastropod) · ia limace (gastropod) · hy շողուկ (gastropod) · sq lapurak (gastropod) · gd seilcheag (gastropod) · ga seilide drúchta (gastropod) · mk го́лич (gastropod) · uk слима́к (gastropod) · cy malwod (bullet) · mfe los (gastropod) · sc gioga (gastropod) · sh puž golać (gastropod) · sv snigel (gastropod) · be слізня́к (gastropod) · sq jargës (gastropod) · wa lumçon (gastropod) · scn limaccia (gastropod) · ca llimac (gastropod) · gl lesma (gastropod) · lo ທາກ (gastropod) · bg сачма (bullet) · el σφηνάκι (shot of drink) · sc sitzigórru (gastropod) · ja 蛞蝓 (gastropod) · gu ગોકળગાય (gastropod) · fr limace (gastropod) · de Nacktschnecke (gastropod) · fi prikka (counterfeit coin) · pt projétil (bullet) · sk slimák (gastropod) · de Schnecke (gastropod) · cmn 蛞蝓 (gastropod) · lo ລີ້ນຫມາ (gastropod) · es limaco (gastropod) · be смоўж (gastropod) · la limax (gastropod) · cs slimák (gastropod) · bo སྨུག་འབུ (gastropod) · lv kailgliemezis (gastropod) · arp woo'oowoo3iibeihii (gastropod) · oc limauc (gastropod) · pt dose (shot of drink) · mk жето́н (counterfeit coin) · es lumiaco (gastropod) · cmn 鼻涕蟲 /鼻涕虫 (gastropod) · as কুমজেলেকুৱা (gastropod) · cy gwlithen (gastropod) · hu meztelen csiga (gastropod) · it lumaca (gastropod) · as কুমজেলুকা (gastropod) · es babosilla (gastropod) · ru сли́зень (gastropod) · mi ngata (gastropod) · pt bala (bullet) · cs panák (shot of drink) · eu bare (gastropod) · da snegl (gastropod) · ko 민달팽이 (gastropod) · mk ку́ршум (bullet) · ru рюмка (shot of drink) · grc λεῖμαξ (gastropod) · tl lintang-kati (gastropod) · izh niskapliiska (gastropod) · fa لیسه (gastropod) · vo laläf (gastropod) · ru сто́пка (shot of drink) · tr sümüklü böcek (gastropod) · pl ślimak nagi (gastropod) · fi huikka (shot of drink) · ar بَزَّاقَة (gastropod) · eo limako (gastropod)