How to pronounce “slug”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. [from early 18th c.]
• (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. [from early 15th c.]
• A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. [from 1620s]
• A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
• A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. [from 1880s]
• A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. [from 1750s]
• (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. [from 1920s]
• (physics, rare) 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.
• A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
• A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
• (rail transport) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
• (television editing) A black screen used to separate broadcast items.
• (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
• (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
• (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
• (web development, SEO) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
• (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
• A ship that sails slowly.
• (screenwriting) A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
• (herpetology) An infertile egg of a reptile.
• [Verb]
• To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
• To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
• (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
• (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
• (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
• To make sluggish.

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