slug

Length / number of characters: 4
Number of words: 1

(boxing) a blow with the fist
a projectile that is fired from a gun
To move slowly
be idle
strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound
a counterfeit coin
an idle slothful person
an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped
a strip of type metal used for spacing
any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
A drone
A hindrance
Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails
Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk
A ship that sails slowly
An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun
A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc
To make sluggish
To load with a slug or slugs
To strike heavily
To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel

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