Meaning & use
Slug
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A soft-bodied, slow-moving land mollusk related to the snail but lacking an external shell, often considered a garden pest.
See it in a sentence
A slug left a trail of slime across the garden path overnight.
He slugged his opponent with a single powerful punch.
A note on using this word
"Slug" is also printers' and typesetters' slang for a line of type, and in physics it names a unit of mass in the imperial system.
Another way to use it
2. verb
To hit someone or something hard with the fist.
He slugged the vending machine when it ate his coins.
3. noun
A bullet, especially one recovered from a shooting.
Investigators found a spent slug lodged in the wall.
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