Synonyms for slug
slʌgslug

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bullet, slugnoun

   a projectile that is fired from a gun

   Synonyms:
   biff, bullet, smoke, fastball, hummer, punch, type slug, heater, poke, lick, bullet train, sluggard, clout

2. slugnoun

   a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms

   Synonyms:
   poke, sluggard, bullet, biff, lick, type slug, punch, clout

3. slugnoun

   a counterfeit coin

   Synonyms:
   poke, sluggard, bullet, biff, lick, type slug, punch, clout

4. sluggard, slugnoun

   an idle slothful person

   Synonyms:
   poke, sluggard, bullet, biff, lick, type slug, punch, clout

5. slugnoun

   an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped

   "he took a slug of hard liquor"

   Synonyms:
   poke, sluggard, bullet, biff, lick, type slug, punch, clout

6. type slug, slugnoun

   a strip of type metal used for spacing

   Synonyms:
   poke, sluggard, bullet, biff, lick, type slug, punch, clout

7. slugnoun

   any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell

   Synonyms:
   poke, sluggard, bullet, biff, lick, type slug, punch, clout

8. punch, clout, poke, lick, biff, slugverb

   (boxing) a blow with the fist

   "I gave him a clout on his nose"

   Synonyms:
   jabbing, punch, type slug, pigeon berry, clout, jab, garget, carrier bag, sack, thrust, bullet, salt lick, dawdler, lick, poke, pull, paper bag, lagger, biff, clout nail, thrusting, sluggard, puncher, drone, trailer, lap, laggard, scoke, poking

9. slug, slog, swigverb

   strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat

   "He slugged me so hard that I passed out"

   Synonyms:
   footslog, trudge, stagnate, plug away, keep one's shoulder to the wheel, peg away, slog, idle, quaff, laze, gulp, swig, tramp, pad, plod, keep one's nose to the grindstone

10. idle, laze, slug, stagnateverb

    be idle; exist in a changeless situation

    "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"

    Synonyms:
    swig, tick over, laze, stagnate, slog, idle

Matched Categories

1. • Alcoholic Beverage
   • Coin
   • Gastropod
   • Idler
   • Mass Unit
   • Projectile
   • Type Metal

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. slugnoun

   Synonyms:
   snail (without a shell)

2. slugnoun

   Synonyms:
   drone, sluggard, idler, slow-back

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "slug":

   bullet, warty, ball, swig, maggot, ingot

NicknamesRate these nicknames:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of known nicknames for "Slug":

   The Slug, Sean Daley, Sean Michael Daley, Sep Seven, Se7en, Seven

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1. Wesley D'Amico:

   The slug will always tell the caterpillar that it can't fly.

2. Pounds Pitt:

   I ’m a better runner now than I ever was before, i ’m faster. I’ve got Ironman Bruce Thomas. I do long sessions and sprint sessions and intervals. Before, I ’d just go slug it out for three hours. Having that external feedback is really underrated.

3. Chuck White:

   Before you know it, they've sent a large slug of semi-solid material down, and it just stops.

4. Robert Heinlein, Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love":

   People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

5. Paul Hetherington:

   So there is a high likelihood that we are going to see a slug explosion given that many of their predators are in decline.