slug

Etymology 1


Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from, probably of either or  origin; compare 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬; perhaps ultimately from , from  or otherwise from the root of 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1) Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
 * 2)  A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
 * 3) A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
 * 4) A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
 * 5) A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
 * 6) A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
 * 7)  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.
 * 8)  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.
 * 9) A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
 * 10) A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
 * 11)  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.
 * 12)  A black screen.
 * 13)  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.
 * 14)  A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
 * 15)  A hitchhiking commuter.
 * 16)  The last part of a, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
 * 17)  A hindrance, an obstruction.
 * 18) A ship that sails slowly.
 * 19)  A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
 * 1) A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  A black screen.
 * 4)  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.
 * 5)  A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
 * 6)  A hitchhiking commuter.
 * 7)  The last part of a, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
 * 8)  A hindrance, an obstruction.
 * 9) A ship that sails slowly.
 * 10)  A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
 * 1)  The last part of a, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
 * 2)  A hindrance, an obstruction.
 * 3) A ship that sails slowly.
 * 4)  A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
 * 1) A ship that sails slowly.
 * 2)  A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
 * 1)  A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.

Synonyms

 * see nip & Thesaurus:drink

Translations

 * Ainu: シマイマ
 * Albanian:, , ,
 * Arabic: بَزَّاقَة
 * Arapaho: woo'oowoo3iibeihii
 * Armenian:, շողուկ
 * Assamese: কুমজেলেকুৱা, কুমজেলুকা
 * Asturian: llimiagu
 * Basque: bare
 * Belarusian:, сліма́к, слізня́к
 * Bulgarian: гол о́хлюв
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 鼻涕蟲
 * Mandarin:, , , 水蜒蚰
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, skovsnegl, dræbersnegl
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: limako
 * Estonian: nälkjas
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: lesma, limacha, limaco, limáchega
 * Georgian: ლოქორა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, λείμαξ
 * Ancient: λεῖμαξ
 * Gujarati: ગોકળગાય
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: snígill
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: niskapliiska
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: seilide drúchta, drúchtín,
 * Italian:, limaccia,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 민달팽이, 활유(蛞蝓)
 * Lao: ລີ້ນຫມາ, ທາກ
 * Latin: limax
 * Lithuanian: šliužas
 * Macedonian: го́лич
 * Malay: lintah bulan
 * Maltese: bugħarwien
 * Maori: putoko, ngata
 * Mbyá Guaraní: evo'i pe
 * Norman: lînmache
 * Occitan:
 * Old East Slavic: смолжь
 * Old English: sneġel snail or slug
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Mestworm
 * Polish: ślinik; (shared with snail) ślimak nagi, ślimak bezmuszlowy
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese: sitzigórru
 * Logudorese: gioga
 * Scottish Gaelic: seilcheag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пуж голаћ, пуж слинар
 * Roman: puž golać, puž slinar
 * Sicilian:, mignatta
 * Slovak: slimák
 * Slovene: polž slinar
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lintang-kati
 * Tarifit: buššer
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྨུག་འབུ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: слима́к, слизня́к
 * Uzbek: shilliqqurt
 * Venetian: liméga
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: laläf
 * Walloon:
 * Zazaki: lolıko çılmın


 * Bulgarian: сачма, куршум
 * French:, ,
 * Macedonian: са́чма, ку́ршум
 * Portuguese:, , chumbinho
 * Russian: ,


 * Bulgarian: жетон, фалшива монета
 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian: жето́н


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: го́лтка, шот
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Zazaki: next

Verb

 * 1) To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
 * 2) To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
 * 3)  To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
 * 4)  To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
 * 5)  To load with a slug or slugs.
 * 6) To make sluggish.
 * 1)  To load with a slug or slugs.
 * 2) To make sluggish.
 * 1) To make sluggish.
 * 1) To make sluggish.

Translations

 * German: ,
 * Portuguese:

Etymology 2
. Perhaps somehow from. If so, then ultimately cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A hard blow, usually with the fist.

Verb

 * 1)   To hit very hard, usually with the fist.

Translations

 * German:, , ,
 * Portuguese:

Etymology
Cognate with Irish.

Verb

 * 1) to swallow, swig, slug, guzzle, draw
 * 2) to devour, gorge, gulp
 * 3) to engulf

Noun

 * 1) swallow, swig, draught

Etymology
, probably from a, perhaps ultimately from , if the original sense referred to sneaking and sliding. Cognate of 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) sly, cunning

Usage notes
The difference between and  is similar to the difference between  and, where slug sounds more deceitful by default.

Etymology
, form, from.

Verb

 * 1) to eat greedily