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US
/ˈsɫəɡ/
]
[ UK /slˈʌɡ/ ]
[ UK /slˈʌɡ/ ]
VERB
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strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
He slugged me so hard that I passed out -
be idle; exist in a changeless situation
He slugged in bed all morning
The old man sat and stagnated on his porch
NOUN
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(boxing) a blow with the fist
I gave him a clout on his nose - any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
- an idle slothful person
- a strip of type metal used for spacing
- a counterfeit coin
- 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
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an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped
he took a slug of hard liquor - a projectile that is fired from a gun
How To Use slug In A Sentence
- Put all the fruit in a saucepan on a gentle heat and add a couple of tablespoons of caster sugar and a slug of something pleasantly alcoholic such as brandy, whisky or even sherry.
- Whether these positive initiatives will be enough to overcome disappointment on the limited over-all budget reduction will depend on the extent to which the investor is willing to look beyond near-term sluggishness in North American growth. Budget '85 Special Meeting of The Empire Club of Canada
- Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
- The electronic power-assisted steering feels well weighted, with a slow rack ratio but an on-centre sluggishness, which is safe and steady but not at all responsive. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- The team built a robot which could distinguish a slug from a stone and pick it up.
- Engines usually idle slower and are sluggish to respond until they warm up.
- If you feel sluggish in the morning, use turquoise tones in the bathroom. The Sun
- It was important that they were allowed to slug it out over the so-called flip-flop on that legislation.
- His departure from Time Warner coincided with sluggish operating results at the cable channel.
- As gardeners already know, all other slugs and snails (or gastropod mollusks, to the experts) sport a soft and slimy foot.
