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Another word for slug

Noun

  1. A small amount of liquor

    2. See also:

    ingestion

    big

  2. A self-indulgent person who spends time avoiding work or other useful activity

    3. See also:

    industrious

  3. A sudden sharp, powerful stroke

    4. See also:

    strike

    attack

Another word for slug

Verb

  1. To deliver a powerful blow to suddenly and sharply

    2. Idioms:
    See also:

    strike

    attack

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Another word for slug

Noun
    2. See also:

    loafer

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • I poured a healthy slug and looked at my watch.

  • How would you like working with a slug who couldn't keep his hands off your boobs every time no one was looking and grabbed your ass whenever he damned well pleased?

  • It seems probable that it is identical with one of the open sacs in which each shell-plate of a Chiton is formed, and the series of plate-like imbrications which are placed behind the single shell-sac on the dorsum of the curious slug, Plectrophorus, suggest the possibility of the formation of a series of shellsacs on the back of that animal similar to those which we find in Chiton.

  • It wasn't the war, but it was a battle won, and one more slug was off the street.

  • The Slug Road to Banchory-Ternan, or Upper Banchory (pop. 1475), 15 m.

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