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What does slug mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word slug? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
  2. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
  3. A bullet (projectile).
  4. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
  5. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
  6. (journalism) 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.
  7. (physics) 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.
  8. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
  9. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
  10. (television editing) A black screen.
  11. (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.
  12. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
  13. (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
  14. (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
  15. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
  16. A ship that sails slowly.
  17. A blow, usually with the fist.
Verb
  1. To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
  2. (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
  3. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
  4. (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
  5. (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
  6. (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
  7. To make sluggish.
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