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slug
  1. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
  2. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
  3. A bullet (projectile).
  4. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
  5. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
  6. (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.
  7. (physics) 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. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
  9. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
  10. (television editing) A black screen.
  11. (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error.
  12. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
  13. (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
  14. (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
  15. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
  16. A ship that sails slowly.
  17. A blow, usually with the fist.
  18. Synonyms:
  19. Examples:
    1. “Mike pressed home his advantage, delivering punches fast and hard and finishing off with a slug to his opponent's chin.”
      “Not in the mood for conversation, he knocked back yet another slug of whiskey.”
      “After his epiphany, he realized that there was more to life than being a slug.”
sluggard
  1. A person who is lazy, stupid, or idle by habit.
  2. A person slow to begin necessary work, a slothful person.
  3. A fearful or cowardly person, a poltroon.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Dujon had not chosen welfare because she was a sluggard or had a baby out of wedlock.”
      “We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, and the industrious ant, a sluggard.”
      “Far from being a national icon, Bonaparte is a weakling, a coward, a sluggard, and an ignoramus.”
sluggishness
  1. The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
  2. The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “As if to make up for the sluggishness in his body, his mind was racing along at double speed.”
      “Stopping caffeine suddenly, however, can cause sluggishness, fatigue, headache and grumpiness.”
      “He was all too aware of the hours passing, of the sluggishness of their progress.”
slugging
slugworm
  1. Any caterpillar which has the general appearance of a slug.
sluggardy
  1. The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Relatively little of note actually happens, and those who like stories with their films will find events unfolding at the pace of a particularly sluggardy snail.”
slugabed
  1. One who lies late in bed; a sluggard.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Give it a read if you're interested in what a foreigner thought of English stage coaches and slugabed habits.”
      “I will freely admit that I exist in a constant state of dysania. It's closely related to slugabed.”
      “The story behind the breakfastless children, the experts reported, is that Mom is a slugabed who refuses to get up in time to scramble the eggs.”
sluggardliness
slugginess
  1. The state or quality of being sluggy.
sluggardness
sluggabed
  1. Alternative form of slugabed
slugs
sluggishnesses
sluggabeds
  1. plural of sluggabed
sluggings
slugworms
  1. plural of slugworm
slugabeds
  1. plural of slugabed
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This time though, his team were not the slugabeds who had toiled so morosely against Austria, Poland and England in Manchester.”
      “I'm hoping to get a few more from lollygaggers and slugabeds.”
      “You men have had baths, while Aunt Hilda and I haven't had a chance to get clean for fear of waking you slugabeds.”
sluggards
  1. plural of sluggard
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “That is why, while I often criticize the sluggards and incompetents in government, my admiration for the good guys is boundless.”
      “The American masses are perceived as apathetic sluggards, whose votes would be better exercised by enlightened foreign observers.”
      “They always claim to work hard, but in truth they're nothing but lazy idle sluggards!”
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