A volume of mud that is more dense than the mud in the drillpipe and wellbore annulus. A slug is used to displace mud out of the upper part of the drillpipe before pulling pipe out of the hole and is [..]

"shell-less land snail," 1704, originally "lazy person" (early 15c.); related to sluggard.

"lead bit," 1620s, perhaps a special use of slug (n.1), perhaps on some supposed resemblance. Meaning "token or counterfeit coin" first recorded 1881; meaning "strong drink&qu [..]

"a hard blow," 1830, dialectal, of uncertain origin; perhaps related to slaughter or perhaps a secondary form of slay.

"deliver a hard blow with the fist," 1862, from slug (n.3). Related: Slugged; slugging. Slugging-match is from 1878.

organism (gastropod) similar to a snail but lacking a shell.

A mammal from the mollusk family. It prefers to live under stones and boards and eat leaves. Leaves that are chewed are often evidence of slug activity.

a large kind of snail without a shell

The scrap produced by perforating, punching, or piercing.

cf. Mollusc - the molluscs (animals in the phylum Mollusca) are soft-bodied invertebrates including slugs, snails, squid and octopus.

A Slug is the unique identifying part of a web address, typically at the end of the URL. In the context of MDN, it is the portion of the URL following "<locale>/docs/". It may also jus [..]

A term applied to a single projectile for shotgun shells. Also slang term for bullet.

A rather unattractive sounding name for Filler.

Elimination system, colon.

A strip of blank leader or image-bearing film used as leader. (Film Editing)

An embossed plate that, when inserted into certain scales, prints a descriptive label.

A line of type set in metal on a Linotype machine. Also the one-word working title of an article as it moves through production. SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) is a familiar slug for an article about a Supreme Court decision. (courtesy of John E McIntyre)

A key word or phrase that identifies a news story while it is being prepared.

A section of blank film or tape that separates news stories or sequences. snake:

A word that identifies a story as it is processed through the newspaper plant. It is usually placed in the upper left-hand corner of each take of the story. See also take.

title of a script; used for reference purposes; wire-service stories are each given one

A slug is a few words that describe a post or a page. Slugs are usually a URL friendly version of the post title (which has been automatically generated by WordPress), but a slug can be anything you l [..]

(n) a projectile that is fired from a gun(n) 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(n) a counterfeit [..]

a large "dose" of chemical treatment applied internally to a steam boiler intermittently. Also used sometimes instead of "priming" to denote a discharge of water out through a boiler steam outlet in relatively large intermittent amounts.

A genus of large marine sea slugs in the Family Tritoniidae found in the northern Pacific Ocean. They are used in neurological Research.

A fitting on the luff or foot of a sail that allows it to attach to the mast or boom by fitting into a slot; as in: Before we can raise the main we will have to bend it on by putting the sail slugs in [..]

Liquid water entrained in a steam pipe; the result can be damage to turbines.

a fitting that is inserted into a groove in the mast or boom in order to attach the sail's luff or foot to its respective spar

a small mollusk of the family Limacidae, resembling and moving like a land snail, but having only a rudimentary shell or none at all (Webster)

Intermittent release or discharge of wastewater or industrial wastes.

As a noun, bullet

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The U.S. customary unit of mass defined as the mass which receives an acceleration of 1 foot per second per second when a force of 1 pound is applied to it.

A unit of measure for mass in the English system, which equals 14.6 kg in the SI system.