slug

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  1. noun A round bullet larger than buckshot.
  2. noun Informal A shot of liquor.
  3. noun Informal An amount of liquid, especially liquor, that is swallowed in one gulp; a swig.
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  • Rhyme noted that the slug was a 71-grain, big enough to do very serious damage if it was fired at close range. —  The Cold Moon
  • He was pale as a slug, and smoking a Fatima in a holder. —  Omni: February 1995
  • The ground underfoot is dry but feels swampy Actually, the slug is a surgical disguise. —  Asimov'sSF,Dec2003
  • In this technique, they use a thin square slab of steel material known as a slug and sandwich it between slabs of the fireproofing material of interest. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • When an application is deployed to Heroku - with a single command - it is compiled into a self-contained, read-only instance Heroku calls a "slug" - named after the movable type molds used to cast hot-metal type in printing. —  Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed
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bullet ·  projectile ·  pellet ·  snail ·  cartridge ·  spider ·  worm ·  beetle ·  swig ·  grenade ·  lizard ·  bug

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slug:   slugs ·  Slug ·  slugged ·  slugging
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  1. Perhaps from slug2 (from its shape).
  2. Middle English slugge, sluggard, probably of Scandinavian origin.
  3. Possibly from slug1.
  4. Probably from slug2.

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  1. Also dial. *sluck (in sluckabed, variant of slugabed); from Middle English sluggen, *sloggen, a variant of *slukken, *slokken = Low German *slukken, in freq. slukkern, be loose, = Norwegian sloka, go in a heavy, dragging way, = Swedish sloka, hang down, droop, = Danish *sluke, *sluge (in comp. sluk-öret, with drooping ears); cf. Icelandic slōkr = Norwegian slok, a slouching fellow. Cf. slock, slouch. The forms are chiefly dialectal, and the senses are involved. Hence slug, sluggard, etc.
  2. from Middle English slugge; cf. Low German slukk, drooping, downcast: see slug, v.
  3. Prob. a particular use of slug, n.
  4. Also slog; prob. ult. a secondary form of slay, from Anglo-Saxon sleán (preterit slōh, plural slōgon), strike: see slay.
  5. Origin uncertain: (a) prob. literally ‘a heavy piece,’ from slug, a.; otherwise (b) from slug, a snail, from a fancied resemblance; or (c) from slug, v., strike heavily.
  6. from slug, n.
  7. Origin obscure.
 

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