A Quick and Simple Dictionary

slug

1. Noun.  Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only rudimentary) shell.
2. Noun.  (slang) A lazy person, a sluggard.
3. Noun.  A bullet (projectile).
4. Noun.  A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
5. Noun.  A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
6. Noun.  (context, journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story.
7. Noun.  (physics, rarely used) 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.
8. Noun.  (rfv-sense, what does this mean?) A discrete quantity of one fluid that flows through the line surrounded by another.
9. Noun.  A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
10. Noun.  (context, television editing) A black screen.
11. Noun.  (metal typesetting) A piece of type metal imprinted by a Linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.
12. Noun.  (context, regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
13. Verb.  To drink quickly; to gulp.
14. Verb.  To down a shot.
15. Verb.  (transitive) To hit very hard.
16. Verb.  casual carpooling; forming ad hoc, informal carpools for purposes of commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.