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Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.

(obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.

A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.

A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.

A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.

A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.

(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.

(rare) 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. +

A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.

A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.

(railroading) 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.

(television editing) A black screen used to separate broadcast items.

(type slug)(metal typesetting) 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''.

(regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.

(District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.

(SEO) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.

(obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.

A ship that sails slowly.

(screenwriting) A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.

(herpetology) An infertile egg of a reptile.

To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.

To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.

(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.

To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.

To load with a slug or slugs.

To make sluggish.

(hard blow) A hard blow, usually with the fist.

(to hit) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.